Quotes about Selflessness
It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.
— Mother Teresa
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
— CS Lewis
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
— George Eliot
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
— Mark Twain
When we make self the end of prayer, it is not worship but self-seeking.
— Thomas Manton
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