Unselfishness Quotes
52 quotes by 40 authors
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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
— Bill Russell
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
— B. C. Forbes
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other…
— Oscar Wilde
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Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals
— John Wooden
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
— George Santayana
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Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in…
— Obafemi Awolowo
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A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
— David Seabury
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There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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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
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Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of…
— D.E. Stevenson
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Oysters are more beautiful than any religion....Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.
— Swami Vivekananda
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A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
— Richard Aldington
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Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these,…
— Swami Vivekananda
Who Wrote These Unselfishness Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 52 Unselfishness Quotes, led by these top contributors: