Quotes about selfless

It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.

You have to recognize your inability to love before you can love the way God loves. His version of love is unfamiliar to the natural world It is sacrificial and selfless and the most beautiful love you could experience.

Of course love is blind it keeps me blind to myself.

It's not that people are mean to each other it's just that they haven't forgotten the times when being selfless brought them loneliness & pain.

Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’ happens every day.

The best of who you are is not from who you have in your life, rather who they helped you become because they loved you.

Learn to be assertive without anger attached to it.

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.

A selfish life isn’t God’s purpose for you

To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.

We should be selfless in our practice as believers

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.

We men have always fought to protect others... since the ancient times. Even though we were naked, and only had sticks and stones to defend ourselves... we still had the elderly, the young, our wives, friends, family, and homes... and to protect all of that we braved any danger, no matter what... and fought! And even among those cavemen there were useless failures! Just like how we are today! But in the end, even they gathered their courage, and fought! And, not surprisingly, being incompetent..

You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.

My mistakes were because I was selfless. I wanted to complete someone else, I didn’t think about completing myself.

There's more than what the eye can see, the heart can love, and the brain can understand.

Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.

Greatness is not found in power, it is not found in money, it is not found in the ability to conquer. Greatness is found in humility, in compassion, and in the ability to think outside oneself.

You occasionally hear it said that spiritual aspirants should drop everything and set off for the woods, or go to India and wander about on the slopes of the Himalayas. But only through daily contact with people--not trees or brooks or deer--can we train ourselves to be selfless in personal relationships.

The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here--and that is a blessing--do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole?

Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people’s successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.

Love is a combination of virtues. The amount you receive from someone is based on the percentage of those virtues learned and applied. Unhappiness in a relationship is not a lack of love, but a lack of virtues in the percentages your significant other needs.

Pray for others because others are selflessly praying for you as well.

Dedicated selfless people shape the future

If you help someones bank account rise But you can't help their heart feel... Really, what is your value?

You don't give up on people you truly love. Whether they are in your life or stand on the edge of your heart, you want them to be happy. This is the truest kind of love because it gives more than it ever receives.

The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

Never mind the rule, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all,' because that's not the route to take. Instead, look into the mirror and say those things to yourself. Then yell those things at yourself. And multiply how much that hurts by 10. And decide, should I still say these things? And walk away.

Forgiveness requires a sacrifice of pride. A humbling of the spirit. An increase of selfless love. A time when you allow others' feelings to be more important than your own.

As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.

If I have to dangle myself in the water like a freaking minnow, I will. Those people don't deserve this type of treatment. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE)

Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.

All your stress, pain, suffering, misery is due to your attachment with it. If you don’t attach with the things, that doesn’t serve you, either in your internal or external life, slowly those things lose grip on you, and you release yourself from it forever.

Paltry supply with capable means is one face of iniquity.

A hero is someone who is selfless.

Being a samurai is all about selfless service and if the lord abuses the servant, it is no longer a situation of service; it becomes the situation of a victim. It is never acceptable for a samurai to be a victim. It is never acceptable to allow a lord to abuse you or rob you of your dignity. In such a situation, it is acceptable to walk away.

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

An "eye" on the vision is more important than an "I" on the vision.

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

The most benevolent souls are the one's who have had to drink some of life's worst poisons, yet protected others in their lives from ever having to taste them.

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature.

Be selfless to be helpful.

Being selfless isn't bad. It is a very rare quality.

Ah, selfish. There’s that word again.” Sherry smirked. “It’s been hurled at me many a time, because being a mother and wife is all about selflessness, see?” She imitated a perky, syrupy-sweet voice. “Giving up every molecule of your soul. If you want anything for yourself, you’re accused of being selfish. Marriage and especially motherhood mean being condemned to play second fiddle your entire life.

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

i loved her, for she was beauty dressed in a selfless personality and the skin of unconditional love. A voice of truthful melody and eyes holding a vision so large, maybe, just maybe she was born to change the world.

While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort

Christmas is a bold act of emboldening sacrifice and the most selfless gift ever granted the rebellious lot that we are.

Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.

There is no middle ground for the selfless and the selfish.

And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.

Miki-san... do you truly want that person's dream to come true? Or is it that you want to be that person's savior for making that dream come true? If you're going to fulfill someone else's dream, that's the time when it's most important to be sure you know your own wish. The two might seem the same, but they're entirely different.

True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one's body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one’s body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

It is sad to see people do things without putting their soul and heart into it.

A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.

She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?