Quotes about Selflessness

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

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.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

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.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

You cannot partake of the power of Christ's resurrection unless you are first willing to lay down your own will and desires, and die to all your pride and independence.

If you are searching for the secret of true joy, and victorious Holy Spirit-filled Christ living, the answer is simply this: Die! Die and keep on dying daily until all of you is dead and only Christ lives. Death is the key to life and life more abundantly.

Funny how often something she'd been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want--when the real 'need' was something else entirely. Something that could only be gained by giving, not by getting.

I will park my pride and dip into the lake again

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.