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

  Mortimer Adler

  Selfless, Unselfish Love, Benevolent

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• 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 and invariably futile.

  Alan Watts

  People, Effort, Ego

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• But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Ambition, Voice, Joy

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.334, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Brother, Selfish, Real

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• It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

  A. N. Wilson

  Jobs, Responsibility, Men

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• Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

  David Niven

  War, Humanity, Unselfish Love

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• God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -- to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly sympathies and affections.

  Mary Howitt

  Children, Heart, Race

  Mary Botham Howitt (1840). “Hope On! Hope Ever! Or,The Boyhood of Felix Law”, p.14

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• 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. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

  LeBron James

  Motivational, Basketball, Determination

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• The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Selfish, Heart

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.33, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hurt, May, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.82, Advaita Ashrama

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• 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 helping hand, or a gracious smile.

  James E. Faust

  Opportunity, Simple, Hands

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• Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

  Jessica Chastain

  Unselfish Love, Done, Do Unto Others

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.

  Paul Billheimer

  Prayer, Intercession, Can Do

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• The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Love is not simply a feeling of romantic excitement; it is more than a desire to marry a potential partner; it goes beyond intense sexual attraction; it exceeds the thrill at having "captured" a highly desirable social prize. Real love is an expression of the deepest appreciation for another human being; it is awareness of his or her needs and longings- past, present and future. It is unselfish, giving and caring.

  James Dobson

  Appreciation, Real, Caring

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• I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the last analysis. And that what has been going on with the United States over the period of that last three years, the divisions, the violence, the disenchantment with our society, the divisions - whether it's between blacks and whites, between the poor and the more affluent, or between age groups, or in the war in Vietnam - that we can work together. We are a great country, an unselfish country and a compassionate country. And I intend to make that my basis for running.

  Robert Kennedy

  Running, Country, War

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• The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Character, Adversity, Opportunity

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• Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

  Lauryn Hill

  Envy, Suffering, May

  Song: Tell Him, Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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• Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are wondrous and strange and there's nothing in life that love cannot change! Love can transform the most commonplace into beauty and splendor and sweetness and grace. Love is unselfish, understanding and kind, for it sees with its heart and not with its mind! Love is the answer that everyone seeks... Love is the language, that every heart speaks. Love can't be bought, it is priceless and free, love, like pure magic, is life's sweet mystery!

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Love, Sweet, Heart

  Helen Steiner Rice (2007). “A Collection of Love Gifts”, p.3, Barbour Publishing

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• True friendship is an unconditional, unselfish, reciprocal service not by lips, but heart to never let its in-built trust to ever fall apart.

  Anuj

  True Friend, Fall, Heart

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• Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Doe, Unselfish Love, Return

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• If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

  Timothy Keller

  Motivational, Success, Waiting

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.221, Penguin

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• Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure of the heart, an unselfish work, a sacred trust that blesses both giver and receiver.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Teaching, Heart, Slides

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• I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.

  Hugh Walpole

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Artist, Passionate, Mouths

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