Unselfishness Quotes

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

— Israel Zangwill

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

— George Sand

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Unselfishness is contagious.

— Larry Nance, Jr

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

— Anonymous

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

— Swami Vivekananda

Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.

— B. C. Forbes

Unselfishness along with defensive impact is going to break a lot of ties.

— Rick Carlisle

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

— Andre Maurois

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

— Bill Russell

“Hence you find a good deal of unselfishness in the world, but very little selflessness.”

— S.M. C

When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

— Hector Hugh Munro

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

— George Bernard Shaw

Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof.…

— Swami Vivekananda

Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained…

— Frederick Lenz

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

— B. C. Forbes

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe.…

— Jessica Lange

There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to…

— D.E. Stevenson

A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. . . .…

— Paul Dirac

Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality,…

— Swami Vivekananda

It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify…

— Anonymous

Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely…

— Sri Aurobindo

Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, words and thoughts: daily forgiveness, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of…

— John Ross Macduff

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness…

— Oscar Wilde

You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason…

— Anonymous

If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But…

— Anonymous

How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish…

— Rose Macaulay

The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire;…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I think it's really important to have a vision of teamwork, team play, and unselfishness.

— Chris Mullin

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

— Woodrow Wilson

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

— George Santayana

There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster

— H H Munro

I really appreciate you Your helpful, giving ways And how your generous heart Your unselfishness displays.

— Babloo

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

— Dag Hammarskjold

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

— E. M. Forster