Selfless Quotes

263 quotes by 185 authors

To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of their greatest weapon.… — N.D. Wilson
Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid,… — Mas Oyama
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded. — Robert Gottlieb
The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure. — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one… — Ashly Lorenzana
One makes a gift of one's life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, and devotion and selfless service. When seeking to uplift others, we… — David Hawkins
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those who have learned… — Robert H. Schuller
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults. — Clayton Christensen
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already… — Shunryu Suzuki
"Heaven" refers to the realm that is the interior part of a human being, and that the "divine self" is none other than the selfless… — Masahisa Goi
What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this tremendous sense of… — Russell Brand
Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for the… — Amy Carmichael
Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to… — Eknath Easwaran
My son's the most precious thing to me: He's changed me from being selfish to selfless. — Ricardo Antonio Chavira
Humility is the essence of repentance. Humility is selfless, not selfish. ItÂ doesn'tÂ demand its own way or speak with moral superiority. Instead, humility answers softlyÂ and listens… — L. Whitney Clayton
We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement, . . . by forgiving those who have offended us, . . . by… — Ezra Taft Benson
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent… — Greg Rucka
Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless. — Sakyong Mipham
Wonder-the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge-promises to become the point of departure for genuine… — Hans Urs von Balthasar

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