Quotes about Selflessness

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.

The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.