Quotes about Selflessness
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.
- Thomas a Kempis
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
- CS Lewis
It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed
- Charles Spurgeon
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
- Elbert Hubbard
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
- Elbert Hubbard
Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
- GK Chesterton
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.
- Mahatma Gandhi
What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'
- CS Lewis