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Quotes about Selflessness

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go.
- Alan Redpath
We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.
- Anne Lamott
Love isn't love just because someone receives it or reciprocates," Coral said. "Loving someone who doesn't love you in return is perhaps the greatest kind of love. Sacrificial. Without demand or condition.
- Rachel Hauck
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.
- Randy Alcorn
Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?
- Randy Alcorn
Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking
- Reba McEntire
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
- Laurence Sterne
No man can help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson