Quotes about Selflessness
As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.
— Andy Stanley
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
— Arthur Ashe
If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life.
— Henry B. Eyring
If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.
— Gordon Hinckley
As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
— Robert Frost
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.
— Lewis Carroll
It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.
— Lewis Carroll
If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to him who steals your coat, how long will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also?
— Lewis Carroll
The point is that love gives even when it is not returned. Once Love has chosen, He does not change His mind.
— Lisa Bevere
The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"
— Marianne Williamson
It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.
— Samuel Johnson