Quotes about Selflessness
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
- Khalil Gibran
Obedient people never trust in themselves.
- Catherine of Siena
God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.
- Mother Teresa
Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.
- Ronald Reagan
Whatever I do is out of love.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.
- Maya Angelou
When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?
- Oprah Winfrey
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.
- Hannah More
Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.
- Jerry Bridges
Love is primarily giving. It's an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.
- Timothy Keller