Quotes about Selflessness
Being totally committed to Jesus and living to give. If you are not living to give, then you are living for yourself and cutting off the flow of God. Living to give will bring you into the place of living from your giving. Giving
- Kenneth Copeland
She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
- CS Lewis
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
- CS Lewis
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
- CS Lewis
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
No person was ever honored for what he recieved. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
- George Bernard Shaw
You only have what you give. It's by spending yourself that you become rich.
- Isabel Allende
I have zero ego.
- Ryan Fitzpatrick
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
- St. John Chrysostom
If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.
- Woodrow Wilson
Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.
- St. Therese of Lisieux