Top 100 Unselfish Quotes
#2. We can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.
Ilchi Lee
#3. The Koran teaches that deeds of unselfish kindness will be rewarded in heaven. I've given you precious food and for this unselfishness I will find reward. But now I shall go further. I am going to give you work.
Rose Tremain
#4. D-Wade is the unselfish guy here-he is welcoming Chris Bosh and LeBron James to his team.
LeBron James
#5. We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.
Dada Vaswani
#6. The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Helen Keller
#7. Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave them behind. He had chosen this, an unselfish life.
Jessica Fortunato
#8. There will be pain for us all, but it will not be all pain, nor will this pain be the last. We and you too, you most of all, dear boy, will have to pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet. But we must be brave of heart and unselfish, and do our duty, and all will be well!
Bram Stoker
#9. To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.
Swami Vivekananda
#10. Government, too, must have qualities of the spirit," Collins told the crowd. "Truth and justice and fairness and unselfish service are some of these. Without these qualities there is no worthwhile
Gilbert King
#11. Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.
Rebecca Ruter Springer
#12. Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.
Andre Simon
#13. Restraint, soberness, the matured thought, the unselfish act, they are necessities of the barbarous state, the life of dangers. Dourness is man's tribute to unconquered nature.
H.G.Wells
#14. There's a chilling grimness behind his gaze, and I let myself acknowledge what I've been denying: In his own way, Morpheus is my knight, too. He just has more muddled motivations than Jeb - not always unselfish and honorable, but vigilant. I have to give him that.
-Unhinged, pg 252
A.G. Howard
#15. Kindness isn't sacrifice so much as it is being considerate for the feelings of others, sharing happiness, the unselfish thought, the spontaneous and friendly act, forgetfulness of our own present interests.
Carl Holmes
#16. If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.
Wendy Mass
#17. Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#18. When you're in a romantic relationship, of course, there is a lot more compromise and you have to be a lot more unselfish.
Olivia Wilde
#19. When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
Pat Riley
#20. To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.
John Austin Baker
#21. No human mother could have shown more unselfish and sacrificing devotion than did this poor, wild brute for the little orphaned waif whom fate had thrown into her keeping. At
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#22. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.
Oscar Wilde
#23. The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Mark Twain
#24. That which we look on with unselfish love
And true humility is surely ours,
Even as a lake looks at the stars above
And makes within itself a heaven of stars.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
#25. I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.
Jack London
#26. A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person, - when?
Ridgely Torrence
#27. Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.
Marcus Aurelius
#28. This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.
Swami Vivekananda
#29. To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.
LeBron James
#30. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man." ~ 'The Black Cat.
Edgar Allan Poe
#31. Nature is unselfish," she says. "It only wishes to survive. Humanity inflicts harm on it, digs up the earth, poisons the waters, harnesses rock and metal and stone for its own purposes. We are the protectors. We are the connection between humanity and nature. Nature is always searching for balance.
Amy Ewing
#32. Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
David Niven
#33. Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service ...
John Ellerton
#34. Be unselfish in your love. Remember, you are not the cat.
Bill Zimmerman
#35. But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.
Ron Jaworski
#36. The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun ... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.
Lori Foster
#37. The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.
J.G. Holland
#38. Was this what it felt like to do something unselfish? The sensation was weird. Uncomfortable, yet ... not awful. Like liquor that tasted like shit but went down smooth.
Larissa Ione
#39. If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.
John Brady
#40. That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.
Swami Vivekananda
#41. To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
Michael Jordan
#42. Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
Erma Bombeck
#43. I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.
L.M. Montgomery
#44. Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy
#45. Reach out a hand to your brother, for the unselfish look out for their fellow man.
Samuel S. Sumner
#46. For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious, and selfish men.
Ivo Andric
#47. Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.
Robin Hobb
#48. My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their hard work and unselfish dedication to their family, were my mom, Catherine, and my dad, William.
Allan Ray
#49. Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover; it's more unselfish anyhow. My dear, I'm going to have a pretty lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come.
Bram Stoker
#50. I do not need your sympathy or condolence; if I am an atheist, there are reasons for that and those reasons are thoughtful, unselfish and conscious.
M.F. Moonzajer
#51. People have always told me, 'Yo, you're too unselfish. Shoot more.'
Lamar Odom
#52. ...the act of kindness is an unselfish act, it is medicine for your soul...
Travis Culliton
#53. Dream a better dream, an unselfish dream, a dream to make the world a better place, then work to make that dream a reality
Unkown Author
#55. You want me to be unselfish? A vampire is selfish. We kill so that we can survive, that is the ultimate selfishness.
Caroline Hanson
#56. It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.
Gayle Forman
#57. I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.
Marlene Zuk
#58. An unselfish dream, goal, or service can help us to the height of spiritual living.
Harold Klemp
#59. Our goal is to develop our team, to earn what we get, to learn, to develop unselfish attitudes. If we achieve that, the results is that we'll win.
Marv Levy
#60. You know I am not a champion of marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless.
Oscar Wilde
#61. Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
Mortimer Adler
#62. First of all, he was not my type. He was nice, considerate, unselfish and grounded; qualities I'd never experienced in a man. Usually, I went for the self centered, screwed up, "I'm lost, will you be my mother" type.
Brenda Perlin
#63. The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
Alan Watts
#64. I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#65. Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.
Oscar Patton
#66. I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.
John Cleese
#67. In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#68. Do not be afraid of a small beginning. great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The brutal mania for leading has sunk many a great ships in the waters of life. Take care especially of that, i.e. be unselfish even unto death, and work.
Swami Vivekananda
#69. It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,
a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.
Frances Power Cobbe
#70. When all is said and done, the unselfish acts of what we have done without asking for anything in return, will have said it all.
Brian Jett
#71. 'Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday you will be a real boy.' The Blue Fairy said that. In Pinocchio.
Robert Crais
#72. Agape love, on the other hand, is unselfish, unconditional, and unstoppable. It is based upon choice and commitment, not feelings. So unless this kind of love forms the foundation of your marriage, the wear and tear of time could destroy it.
Alex Kendrick
#73. But, once in a while, people enter your life that you love - not for what they give you - but for what they are. The beauty you see in them is a reflection of the Creator, so you love them. Now suddenly it isn't about what you're getting, but rather what you can give. This is unselfish love.
Yasmin Mogahed
#74. The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.
Swami Vivekananda
#75. When every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.
Cyril Connolly
#76. Stout was a leader - quiet, unselfish, modest, yet very strong, very thoughtful and remarkably innovative. Whether speaking or writing, he was economical with words, precise, vivid. One believed what he said; one wanted to do what he proposed. Neither
Robert M. Edsel
#77. Compromise is what binds people together. Compromise is sharing and conciliatory, it is loving and kind and unselfish.
Ali Harris
#78. Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.
Swami Vivekananda
#79. But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough.
Aprilynne Pike
#80. What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
Bernard Cornwell
#81. Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.
Paul Billheimer
#82. Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
George Santayana
#83. I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.
Melanie Roach
#84. If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish.
Swami Vivekananda
#85. Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.
Albert Einstein
#86. Almost every day brings opportunities to perform unselfish acts for others. Such acts are unlimited and can be as simple as a kind word, a helping hand, or a gracious smile.
James E. Faust
#87. Our Savior gave Himself in unselfish service. He taught that each of us should follow Him by denying ourselves of selfish interests in order to serve others.
Dallin H. Oaks
#88. The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.
Billy Graham
#89. Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#90. Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life.
Brian Tracy
#91. Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's history when that torch was extinguished. In all ages, in all climes, among all people, there has been true, pure, and unselfish love.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#92. Concern for Others Loophole: We tell ourselves that we're acting out of consideration for others and making generous, unselfish decisions. Or we decide we must do something in order to fit into a social situation.
Gretchen Rubin
#93. The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#94. A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#95. True Christianity is love in action. There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for your fellow men. This is the spirit of missionary work
David O. McKay
#96. I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.
LeBron James
#97. Love, she realized at that terrible moment of truth, could be incredibly unselfish, even when it hurt until she bled.
Nalini Singh
#98. A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.
Eva K. Logue
#99. Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.
John Raleigh Mott
#100. Objective judgment ... Unselfish action ... Willing acceptance ... of all external events.
Marcus Aurelius
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