Unselfishness Quotes - Page 2

• Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

  Israel Zangwill

  Real, Religion, Atheism

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

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• Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, Modesty, Praise

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• I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Thinking

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sarcastic, Women, Expression

  Screwtape Letters (1942) no. 26

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• Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Crush, Able, Faces

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.202, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Worship Service, Unselfish

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

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• To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Self, Perfection

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• Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Sacrifice, Self, People

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• Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Oysters

  "The Chronicles of Clovis". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1911.

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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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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sad, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.

  Ron Jaworski

  Leadership, Sports, Team

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

  David Niven

  War, Humanity, Unselfish Love

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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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• If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

  C. S. Lewis

  Selfish, People, Feelings

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may not have been perfectly unselfish; yet he was tending towards it. If he had been perfectly unselfish, his would have been as great a success as that of the Buddha or of the Christ. The degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Integrity, Successful, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.147, Vivekananda Kendra

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• You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sacrifice, Men, Things In Life

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• Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Play

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• People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Worship, Havens

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• Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Team, Nba

  Bill Russell, David Falkner (2001). “Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner”, p.36, Penguin

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• Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Selfish, Palaces, Rags

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.48, Advaita Ashrama

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• If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Love You, Men

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