Unselfish Quotes

• The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Feet, Sound

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• 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 the most successful.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Successful

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• Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

  Erma Bombeck

  4th Of July, Caring, Compassion

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• The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Cheer, Teaching

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• 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 only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

  Charles William Eliot

  Spiritual, Thinking, Expansion

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• True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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• The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.

  J. G. Holland

  Lovely, Secret, Being Loved

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• Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Happiness, Spiritual, Inner Peace

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.

  Wendy Mass

  Motivation, Done, World

  Wendy Mass (2011). “13 Gifts”, p.305, Scholastic Inc.

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• The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Worship Service, Form

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• 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 be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Success, Basketball

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• Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

  Grenville Kleiser

  Love, Life, Family

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!

  Catherine Booth

  Helping Others, Waiting, World

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• The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

  Joseph Conrad

  Nature, Intelligent, Revolutionary Leaders

  Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 3 (1911)

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• 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

  Confidence, Honesty, Patriotic

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Courage, Coward, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda “Life changing quotes By Swami Vivekananda”, Bhagyesh

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• If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Stress, Team

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• 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 making the demands and one person always giving way.

  Iris Murdoch

  Marriage, Selfish, Giving

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.13, Penguin

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• The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

  Jessica Lange

  Motivational, Family, Mom

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• I just bring the determination to win.

  LeBron James

  Determination, Winning

  Interview with the media at the Chicago pre-draft camp media conference, www.insidehoops.com. June 14, 2003.

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• Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

  Rebecca Ruter Springer

  Love, Life, Deeds

  Rebecca Ruter Springer (2009). “My Dream of Heaven: A Nineteenth Century Spiritual Classic”, p.21, Harrison House Publishers

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• When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Effort, Decision

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Thinking, Deep Thought, World

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• 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 to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Heart, Sacrifice

  1843 'The Black Cat', in the United States Saturday Post,19 Aug.

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