Quotes about Selflessness
Everything he did, he did for Sabina, the way Sabina would have liked to see it done.
— Milan Kundera
We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return.
— Pope Francis
I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them.
— Olivia Newton-John
Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.
— Rick Warren
Wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.
— Thomas a Kempis
He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.
— Thomas a Kempis
It's a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.
— Timothy Keller
The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.
— Timothy Keller
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.
— Ayn Rand
Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.
— Charles Spurgeon
Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.
— Charles Spurgeon
Love gives up the right to get even.
— Christine Caine