Selfless Quotes

• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Family

  Twitter post from Aug 01, 2015

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

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Worthwhile Things, Discipline, Pakistan

  Address to the officers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi, February 21, 1948.

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• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Greatness, Men, Giving

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• The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Heart, Cutting, Self

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• Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Hero, People, Ordinary

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• We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Selfless Giving

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• When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Practice

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• Humility is the essence of repentance. Humility is selfless, not selfish. It doesn't demand its own way or speak with moral superiority. Instead, humility answers softly and listens kindly for understanding, not vindication. Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Selfish, Humility, Heart

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• The true power of love is found in selfless attitudes and actions that seek the best for another person without expecting anything in return. When we act in that way, the feeling of love follows close behind.

  David Jeremiah

  Attitude, Love Is, Feelings

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Our modern, rootless times do seem to be a particularly inhospitable environment for loyalty. We come and go so relentlessly that our friendships can't but come and go too. What sort of loyalty is there in the age of Facebook, when friendship is a costless transaction, a business of flip reciprocity.... Friendship held together by nothing more permanent than hyperlinks is hardly the stuff of selfless fidelity.

  Eric Felten

  Loyalty, Together, Age

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. That is Christ's great atoning example for us, and it ought to be more evident in the kindness we show, the respect we give, and the selflessness and courtesy we employ in our personal relationships.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Basketball

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• 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?

  Warren St. John

  Humble, Passion, Opportunity

  Warren St. John (2009). “Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference”, p.223, Spiegel & Grau

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• I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

  Anthony Perkins

  Travel, Adventure, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

  Nina Hagen

  Selfless Giving, Aggravation, People

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• Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Passion, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.117, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive.

  C. S. Lewis

  Plato, Children, Real

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• Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Patriotic, Apology, Sacrifice

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• I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.

  Veronica Roth

  Smart, Brave, Divergent

  "Divergent and the Gospel (Part II): Vanquishing Weakness, Cultivating Strength" by Jacob Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2014.

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• It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

  Michael Eisner

  Good Luck, Lucky, Once In A Lifetime

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• Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

  Imran Khan

  Spiritual, Men, Opposites

  "The path of Khan". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer's there and he knows exactly how it's supposed to be said. So you can't really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Voice, Want, Arguing

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

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Two, Ego

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