Unselfish Quotes

140 Unselfish quotes by 110 unique authors

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself… — Charles William Eliot
To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates.… — LeBron James
I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to… — LeBron James
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to… — Michael Jordan
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always… — Iris Murdoch
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion… — Edgar Allan Poe
I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today. — Gordon Ramsay
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always… — Alan Watts
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish… — Ellen G. White
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of… — A. N. Wilson
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.… — Bertrand Russell
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage… — David O. McKay
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. — Helen Keller
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is… — Swami Vivekananda
Almost every day brings opportunities to perform unselfish acts for others. Such acts are unlimited and can be as simple as a kind word, a… — James E. Faust
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single… — Swami Vivekananda
No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way,… — Charlaine Harris
I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer. — Elizabeth von Arnim
Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and… — Simone de Beauvoir
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives… — Viktor E. Frankl
It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done. — Gayle Forman

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