Quotes about Selflessness

Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

Forget yourself and go to work.

Forget yourself and get to work.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

I don't usually talk about the social work I do because I don't do it for publicity. If I can bring a smile to the face of a few children in this one lifetime, I'd be happy.

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Be the spouse you wish to have.

Notice that, in making ourselves available, we are not doing God any favors. We give ourselves for God's use to benefit creation, not to benefit God.