Quotes about Selflessness

Never leave the impression that you're the hero or the smartest

When the Bible speaks of love, it measures it primarily not by how much you want to receive but by how much you are willing to give of yourself to someone. How much are you willing to lose for the sake of this person? How much of your freedom are you willing to forsake? How much of your precious time, emotion, and resources are you willing to invest for this person?

Do you think you are going to live forever? Is life so long you rather rag somebody than be nice to them?

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

When we come to Christ, we're no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus.

Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)...to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.