Top 100 Quotes About Selflessness
#1. The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.
Robert E. Ornstein
#2. I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.
Joyce Banda
#3. I don't like happy people," Andrew said. "They're already happy; they don't need to be liked." "Wow, so selfless," Mark said. "You're a saint. I commend your selflessness. Amazing.
Tao Lin
#4. Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.
Emily Saliers
#5. Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
Steven Pressfield
#6. To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
Thomas Merton
#7. Minimalism in the service of others is a logical extension of the same ethos of selflessness.
Joshua Becker
#8. All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#9. Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.
Frederick Lenz
#10. selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.
Michael A. Stackpole
#11. Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.
Sakyong Mipham
#12. When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.
Dalai Lama XIV
#13. If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!
Joyce Meyer
#14. A whisper of selflessness echos boundlessly.
Aisha Mirza
#15. In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.
Amit Bhatia
#16. Love isn't in body to body contact nor is it in the emotions oozed through tears and weeps. Real love lies in soul to soul connection that you can feel through spiritual practices. Love is boundless and selflessness often we mistake with greedy contentment. Love is give and sacrifice
Sadashivan Nair
#17. For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.
Natalie Merchant
#20. In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness
Soroosh Shahrivar
#21. I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.
Veronica Roth
#22. I've learned that selflessness is a practice, not a place; a journey much more than a destination
Kayla Mueller
#23. There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selflessness toward spiritual goals. The power of God working through such channels will bring unimaginable blessings to all concerned.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#24. 1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.
Rosa DeLauro
#25. Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#26. When you have love and respect, it opens the door for selflessness and a willingness to look pass what is wrong and to focus on how to create a plan, to make things right.
Tasha Hoggatt
#27. One who practices virtue and selflessness should not hold any particular idea in his mind about how to fulfill his virtue, for virtue is the very nature of one's being.
Lao-Tzu
#28. When your intentions are honest and pure, when you speak or act from a place of selflessness and love, the feedback and returns are unimaginable and immeasurable.
Nike Campbell-Fatoki
#30. Selflessness is humility ... humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free.
Jeff Wilson
#31. He was no martyr. He was no hero But in the last two years, selfishness gave way to selflessness, lies gave way to truth and indulgence gave way to spirituality, and anyone watching that couldn't help but be moved by it.
Lex Lasry
#32. Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.
Colleen Hoover
#33. So next time your selflessness is praised in front of others, beware: making sacrifices for others makes it easier for them to sacrifice you.
Daniel M. Wegner
#34. The mythic journey is always about selflessness.
Chris Pine
#35. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.
Suzy Kassem
#36. Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge or act. These are functions of the self.
Ayn Rand
#37. We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#38. I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.
Najib Razak
#39. 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
#40. The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.
Eric Hoffer
#41. Redemption becomes possible when we strive to find selflessness, conscience, and a capacity to love within ourselves where before there was none.
Jim Ford
#42. Big love is the kind of love that takes in more than the self. It's love for something bigger than the self. It's love of God, of the universe, of the family, of the pack, of the tribe. It inspires courage and selflessness in those who know it.
Angelo Dirks
#43. grew increasingly impatient and angry as I compared their selflessness and sacrifice with the self-promotion and selfishness of power-hungry politicians and others - in Baghdad, Kabul, and Washington.
Robert M. Gates
#44. Only when you can feel contempt for your own priceless little ego, only then can you achieve the true, broad peace of selflessness, the merging of your spirit with the vast collective spirit of mankind. There is no room for the love of others within the tight, crowded miser's hole of a private ego.
Ayn Rand
#45. Is it not through her selflessness that she is able to perfect herself?
Lao-Tzu
#46. At its core, naked service boils down to the ability of a service provider to be vulnerable - to embrace uncommon levels of humility, selflessness, and transparency for the good of a client.
Patrick Lencioni
#47. The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. Nothing was really so important to my father as the achievement of selflessness. He rarely mentioned it directly, but tried to guide us to it in a roundabout way.
Tahir Shah
#49. He borrowed from others in order to make an impression on others. There's your actual selflessness. It's his ego that he's betrayed and given up. But everybody calls him selfish.
Ayn Rand
#50. There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.
Ameen Rihani
#51. A body is simply a package for the true gifts inside. And you are full of gifts. Selflessness, kindness, compassion. All the things that matter.
Colleen Hoover
#52. True life is the understanding and support of other people, of selflessness, of charity, of kindness.
Peter F. Hamilton
#54. It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him. I felt such an honor to be associated with such a player.
Alex Ferguson
#56. Candor values honesty, but our faction, Abnegation, values selflessness.
Veronica Roth
#58. If someone asked me to name the first two attributes of Ryke Meadows, aggressive wouldn't even be on the list. In the heart of his soul lies kindness, wrapped tightly in selflessness that shows in almost every action.
Krista Ritchie
#59. Jeff built a culture that was defined by a blue-collar work ethic (symbolized by a hard hat), as well as selflessness, teamwork, relentless effort, and continuous improvement.
Jon Gordon
#60. There's beauty in selflessness. There's honor in putting aside your fears to make sure the ones you love are taken care of.
Cassia Leo
#61. The heroic New York doctor who caught Ebola has been declared Ebola free. President Obama called the doctor to thank him for his selflessness and compassion. Then to be safe, Obama threw his phone in a trash can and lit it on fire.
Jimmy Fallon
#62. Selflessness is the highest goal of good leaders.
Todd Stocker
#63. A leader in sports, business, or any other field of endeavor should possess and provide the same qualities inherent in a good parent: character, consistency, dependability, accountability, knowledge, good judgment, selflessness, respect, courage, discipline, fairness, and structure.
John Wooden
#64. If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.
Melissa De La Cruz
#65. Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part.
Solange Knowles
#66. Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.
Harry Frankfurt
#67. even though clients require us to be competent enough to meet their needs, it is ultimately our honesty, humility, and selflessness that will endear us to them and allow them to trust and depend on us.
Patrick Lencioni
#68. Practicing kindness and selflessness, you naturally align your life with the Integral Way. Aligning your life with the Integral Way, you begin to eliminate the illusory boundaries between people and societies, between darkness and light, between life and death.
Brian Browne Walker
#69. In moments of exaltation one expressed sentiments that outstripped one's spiritual capabilities by a vast span; and she knew well that unless God is sought for Himself alone, with a selflessness of which she was at present incapable, He is not to be found.
Elizabeth Goudge
#70. Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.
Billy Graham
#71. Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#72. Having kids is a full-time job. And I don't know any woman who isn't constantly fighting between the exquisite selfishness required to be an artist and this exquisite selflessness that's required to be a parent.
Liz W. Garcia
#73. In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#74. We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun.
Claire Danes
#75. Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast.
Stewart Stafford
#76. Focusing intently on Christ naturally results in a lifestyle of increasingly greater selflessness. And it has another benefit. Gazing on Christ gives us greater ability to look past life's trials and remain calm in the midst of what others would call chaos.
Charles R. Swindoll
#78. Though it took enormous courage and virtue to risk your life in order to protect society, such selflessness also contained, at least from the vantage point of your loved ones, a hint of cruelty.
David Grann
#79. Many believed what they were told: that the welfare of the entire kingdom depended on their selflessness.
Margaret Atwood
#80. The early doctrines of the church, even doctrines like Trinity and Incarnation were originally also calls for action, calls for selflessness, calls for compassion, and unless you live that out compassionately, selflessly, you didn't understand what the doctrine was saying.
Karen Armstrong
#81. (The truth is that real life-change and the joy of being who you are designed to be always results in selflessness, not selfishness.)
Jon Acuff
#82. Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi
#83. The highest form of love is patriotism and selflessness
Thabiso Monkoe
#84. What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.
Veronica Roth
#85. Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.
John Grogan
#86. I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
Veronica Roth
#87. We are alive in all our layers of self and selflessness - individuals becoming one.
Jay Woodman
#88. Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate or your friend or your sister in Christ.
Tobin Heath
#89. Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.
Frans De Waal
#90. The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.
Ann Turner
#91. Suffering is described in terms of three characteristics of impermanence or transitory nature, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#92. Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.
Baba Hari Dass
#93. Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
Gerry Adams
#94. I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.
Muhammad Yunus
#95. Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.
Christofer Drew
#96. I have this theory that selflessness and bravery really aren't all that different.
Veronica Roth
#97. If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.
Gautama Buddha
#98. I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.
Sebastian Faulks
#99. Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.
Ronald Reagan
#100. Vanity is found in the most unlikely places: in combination with kindness, and selflessness, and generosity.
Ernesto Sabato
