Unselfishness Quotes

• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Friendship, True Friend, Heart

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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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• A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

  Richard Aldington

  Common Sense, Earth, Paradise

  Richard Aldington (1931). “The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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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, Unselfish

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• Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Democracy, Kind, Dangerous

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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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 people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Selfish, People, Wish

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.285, University of Chicago Press

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• When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Real Friends, Community, Live For Others

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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

  Self, Years, Generosity

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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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• Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Real, Share

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.458, Indiana University Press

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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

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

  B. C. Forbes

  Generosity, Joy, Selfishness

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• Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Use, World, May

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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

  Wise, Best Wishes, Selfishness

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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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• 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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• Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Practice, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.38, Manonmani Publishers

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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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• Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man.

  John Ross Macduff

  Kindness, Struggle, Character

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 46), 1895.

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• The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, World, Littles

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Greatness, World, Goodness

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• Selfishness is the only real atheism.

  Israel Zangwill

  Real, Atheism, Selfishness

  Israel Zangwill (1901). “Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People”, p.1004, Library of Alexandria

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• I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

  Shakira

  Children, Parent, Unselfish Love

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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

  Army, Selfishness, Unhappiness

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• The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

  Theodor Reik

  Selfish, Men, Thinking

  Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.14, Transaction Publishers

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