Quotes about Selflessness

In fact, unless I possess something, can I ever really give it?

As long as you feel you are serving others, you do the job well. When you are concerned only with helping yourself, you do it less well—a law as inexorable as gravity.

True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly—with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.

Whether you are a mailman, a hairdresser, an insurance salesman, a housewife—whatever. As long as you feel you are serving others, you do the job well. When you are concerned only with helping yourself, you do it less well—a law as inexorable as gravity.

Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return. If you are a parent, look at the love you have for the children you sacrificed for. Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured.

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love, invite love to accompany you 24/7. Give away love, and it has to come streaming into your life.

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

Powerful people can love without being loved back.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.