Quotes about Selflessness

If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.

A selfless devotion. High-impact people don't care about who gets the credit, and they never complain about the role they fill.

If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.

There's nothing wrong with dreaming about accomplishing great things, as long as that desire isn't focused on one's own glory.

Generosity is not so much a virtuous act as it is a virtuous response.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

She loved nothing in the world except this woman's son, wanted him alive more than anybody, but hadn't the least bit of control over the predator that lived inside her. Totally taken over by her anaconda love, she had no self left, no fears, no wants, no intelligence that was her own.

When you deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Him, you die while you simultaneously truly live. That is when you experience the reality that "whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matthew 16:25).

Men are often reluctant to give up their wants and their agendas, when necessary, for their wives.

A man once told me, "Tony, my wife is killing me." I replied, "Well, you said you wanted to be more like Jesus, didn't you?