Be Selfless Not Selfish Quotes

#1. Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish.

Penelope Ward

#2. Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

Edward Albert

#3. As an artist, my talents are not mine alone to just keep. My creations have to touch lives, spread love and let my skills be used only in good things but should be selfless not through selfish motives. In this manner, I am giving the gift back to my Master Creator. - Elizabeth's Quotes

Elizabeth E. Castillo

#4. Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.

Shunryu Suzuki

#5. The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.

Belart Wright

#6. International war is the sum total of millions of individual wars, raging in the minds of the people, between what is selfish and what is selfless. To the extent that you and I develop selflessness in our own hearts, to that extent we contribute to peace in our family, community, country, and world.

Eknath Easwaran

#7. A selfish life isn't God's purpose for you

Sunday Adelaja

#8. It's not selfish to prioritize your life to fulfill Destiny. It's actually the most selfless thing you can do. God has an appointment for you to serve humanity in the greatest way possible for you.

T.D. Jakes

#9. I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.

Sylvia Plath

#10. Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Make your passion your life. Just don't make it about you.

Leigh Hershkovich

#12. But what Jamie was saying just mixed it all up, selfish and selfless. I wasn't even sure what the words meant anymore. or if it was possible to be one without the other.

Phoebe Kitanidis

#13. Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.

Jim George

#15. Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

Steven Pinker

#16. Any selfish person can light up a room. But a truly selfless person leaves the room (without saying goodbye to anyone) right before they get in a bad mood. See the distinction?

Jay Clark

#17. When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.

Dee Dee Artner

#18. Love is selfish yet a selfless feeling.

Heenashree Khandelwal