Quotes about Selflessness
Pray for your needs, not your greed.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.
— Donald Miller
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
— Albert Einstein
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.
— Pope Francis
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
— David O. McKay
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
— Brigham Young
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
— Confucius