Quotes about Selflessness

The selflessness and dedication shown by many Greek doctors can be seen not only in such works as the Epidemics, but also in, for example, Thucydides' account of the plague at Athens (II, 47ff.) — where he notes the high incidence of mortality from the disease among the doctors who attempted to treat it.

There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care to do, leaving them but little time to please themselves.

A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

Love suffers far more for the pains of the beloved than for its own pains.

But all true effort to help begins with self-humiliation: the helper must first humble himself under him he would help, and therewith must understand that to help does not mean to be a sovereign but to be a servant, that to help does not mean to be ambitious but to be patient, that to help means to endure for the time being the imputation that one is in the wrong and does not understand what the other understands.

According to the Bible, the antidote to materialism is generosity.

Before we can pray, 'Thy Kingdom come,' we must be willing to pray—'My kingdom go!