Quotes about Selflessness
The soul is awakened through service.
- Erica Jong
A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.
- George Washington
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
- Mortimer Adler
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.
- St. Basil
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
- Joseph Campbell
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
- John Piper
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
- Khalil Gibran
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
- CS Lewis
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
- William Hazlitt