Selfless Act Quotes

#1. Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others.

Bryant McGill

#2. When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow ourselves to open up to our own nourishment that we are free to feed the rest of the world. And thus, to attend to one's own suffering is the most selfless act.

Vironika Tugaleva

#3. A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.

Ashly Lorenzana

#4. One who rules assumes irrevocable responsibility for the ruled. You are a husbandman. This demands, at times, a selfless act of love which may only be amusing to those you rule.

Frank Herbert

#5. Thank you for that selfless act of research on my behalf.

Sarina Bowen

#6. Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.

Frederick Lenz

#7. It's very unique. When you have someone who's lucky to get a minute in a game come up and tell you how you can be better when he's two years older than you, it's such a selfless act. Everyone is willing to tell you how to get better.

Christopher Page

#8. Love, understood by all, will be pouring forth its unconscious eloquence.

Henry Drummond

#9. The world isn't ending. You are just experiencing turbulence. The plane is safe. The pilot is good. You're in the right seat of life. You just hit a patch of bumpy air. Wait. It will pass.

Regina Brett

#10. Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#11. The Socialist system requires that each individual act out of selfless, altruistic motives. It sounds nice, but the only way that could happen is if Man were innately centered on others.

Mark David Henderson

#12. Agape love is selfless love ... the love God wants us to have isn't just an emotion but a conscious act of the will - a deliberate decision on our part to put others ahead of ourselves. This is the kind of love God has for us.

Billy Graham

#13. Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

Veronica Roth

#14. Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

David Mamet

#15. When leaders die to pushing their own agendas and realize that leadership is the act of dying to self, those around them are profoundly transformed. Selfless leadership opens a space for God to flow into.

Mark Sayers

#16. I've changed for the better. I'm much more selfless and humble and you're reminded about what life's really about. You love your kid so much that you just want to be a brilliant role model for them. It cleans up your act a bit.

Curtis Stone

#17. We are who we are because somebody loved us.

Cornel West

#18. Forgiving someone who has wronged you is actually a selfish act rather than a selfless one.

Robin S. Sharma

#19. I've never had a specific style philosophy. I wear what I know works on me and I'll play around with accessories or some other fun additions for the outfit.

Hilary Rhoda

#20. We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

Will Rogers

#21. Christmas is a bold act of emboldening sacrifice and the most selfless gift ever granted the rebellious lot that we are.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on.

John L'Heureux

#23. 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

#24. We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

Gautama Buddha

#25. It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.

Francesco Guicciardini

#26. Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

Andrei Tarkovsky

#27. A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.

Raymond Chandler

#28. I'm convinced we have each been endowed with a beautiful heart. We may not always see it. We may not even believe it. But it's a gift that came with birth and, every time we act selflessly, it grows a little.

Steve Goodier

#29. There are only two types of people who can be totally honest with each other, lovers and strangers. Everyone else is just negotiating.

James Grippando

#30. He gives very questioning sermons, Bazil. Sometimes I wonder if he's entirely stable, or then again, if he might be simply ... intelligent.

Louise Erdrich

#31. We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.

Sophie Ristelhueber

#32. Maybe the ability to confer attention to another person was not simply common courtesy, but was the fundamental act of humanity. When it came down to it, all we ever really have to give each other is our attention. Wasn't that what love was? Paying selfless attention?

Carolyn Jourdan

#33. I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping.

Beyonce Knowles