Selfless And Selfish Quotes

#1. Love will make you reckless. It can drag out parts of you that common sense and fear usually keep hidden away. Because love is selfless and selfish.

R.S. Grey

#2. But why must man suffer and sacrifice for God? At the end of his suffering and sacrifice he will find that though he began to do so for God, it has proved to be for himself. It is the foolishly selfish who is selfish, and the wisely selfish proves to be selfless.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#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. 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

#5. Selfish love hurts, selfless love heals.

Rob Liano

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

Belart Wright

#7. 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

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

Sunday Adelaja

#9. When a leader replaces the value of selfless service with selfish ambition they have officially regressed back into a boss.

Noel DeJesus

#10. 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

#11. There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

Eric Hoffer

#12. That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.

Margaret Cho

#13. If your heart, mind, and actions are selfish, they will ultimately divide you, others, or entire [establishments]. When motivation is pure and selfless, it will result in helping bring others together.

A.J. Darkholme

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. 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

#18. When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.

Thomas S. Monson

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

Jim George

#20. It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first. It's hard to get players to give in to the group and become selfless as opposed to selfish.

Isaiah Thomas

#21. Joy is often an outgrowth not simply of following our vocation in life, but of helping those in need and of loving one another. So joy is not a selfish thing to seek, but a selfless thing to find.

James Martin

#22. Love wasn't selfless, and it wasn't selfish either. Love was equality. It was saying that another person's self was just as important as yours, and expecting them to feel the same way.

Rose Lerner

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

Ricardo Antonio Chavira

#24. To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God's passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#25. All your stress, pain, suffering, misery is due to your attachment with it. If you don't attach with the things, that doesn't serve you, either in your internal or external life, slowly those things lose grip on you, and you release yourself from it forever.

Roshan Sharma