Quotes About Being Selfless

#1. It's not that people are mean to each other; it's just that they haven't forgotten the times when being selfless brought them loneliness & pain.

Saurabh Sharma

#2. I want to feel proud and happy about my selflessness. But what happens when being selfless takes away a big part of your self?

Jaye Robin Brown

#3. Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.

Michael Irvin

#4. Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.

Veronica Roth

#5. Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

Gwen Stefani

#6. Being selfless is the biggest wiring mistake in us.

Himmilicious

#7. Being selfless isn't bad. It is a very rare quality.

M.B. Mohan

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

Mortimer Adler

#9. You don't lose yourself being selfless - you find yourself.

Seth Adam Smith

#10. A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.

Bill Courtney

#11. My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.

Chelsea Handler

#12. Being a parent is a selfless adventure. The worldview of "Take care of yourself first" is no longer logical to a sane person if your baby wakes up hungry in the middle of the night.

Jim Gaffigan

#13. They believe one becomes selfless in love because one desires the advantage of another human being, often against one's own advantage. But in return for that they want to possess the other person.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. A heart given freely is the most vulnerable and selfless thing one can offer another human being. It can be as fragile and needy as a newly born infant, or as solid and self-supporting as a granite pillar, yet it is the hands of the recipient that determines its ultimate fate.

Mark W. Boyer

#15. The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

Danny McBride

#16. My dad has this beautiful spirit of being able to create no matter where he is. He's always been so selfless with our family. It's hard to put words to it. He's an incredible man.

Matt Lauria

#17. Furi wasn't into BDSM but he did know how to give his lover that euphoric feeling of being taken over sexually. More people than would admit it craved that relaxed, worry-free moment in bed and just needed a selfless partner to give it to them. Furi

A.E. Via

#18. If you are fortunate enough to meet such a being then you will really learn selfless giving. You'll see that every second, every moment of their awareness is directed towards others.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant.

Harry Browne

#20. She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.

Emily Gould

#21. Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.

Bill Maher

#22. The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest. We carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope.

Dean Koontz

#23. My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

Ricardo Antonio Chavira

#24. Any man can help make a child, but it takes a special man to help raise a child. He must be selfless. He must be responsible. He must be reliable. He must be a role model. Happy Father's Day to the men who are being real fathers.

Tony Gaskins

#25. To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#26. Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.

Radhanath Swami

#27. Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.

Frederick Lenz

#28. "Heaven" refers to the realm that is the interior part of a human being, and that the "divine self" is none other than the selfless light existing in our innermost depths.

Masahisa Goi

#29. Learn to be assertive without anger attached to it.

Nikki Rowe

#30. You completely redefine my idea of what love is and should be. That it needn't be possessive, volatile or detrimental to your well-being, but can be selfless, gentle and consistent -- and should empower you to pursue your passions. That it should balance and enrich a life, not tear it to pieces.

Beau Taplin