Unselfish Quotes - Page 3

• Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father.

  Jack H. Goaslind

  Dream, Kindness, Father

  6 Copy quote

• True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

  Thomas Merton

  Happiness And Love, Unselfish Love, True Happiness

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiveness, Mother, Forgiving

  Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Awakened India”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Asking, Done, Unselfish Acts

  8 Copy quote

• An unselfish dream, goal, or service can help us to the height of spiritual living.

  Harold Klemp

  Dream, Spiritual, Goal

  41 Copy quote

• Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Fire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1763, Manonmani Publishers

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

• The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Lying, Perfection

  "The Stolen White Elephant: Etc". Book by Mark Twain, p. 220-221, 1882.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet 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

  Sex, Revenge, War

  14 Copy quote

• To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Responsibility, People, Temptation

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Selfish, Habit, Customs

  4 Copy quote

• The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the
  selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the
  unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wise, Appreciation, Selfish

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.82, Faber & Faber

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Men, Missionary, Unselfish Love

  7 Copy quote

• That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Beautiful, Order

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed”, p.22

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples. This is feasible. Those who have produced stoic philosophies have all had enough to eat and drink. I feel I shall find the truth on my deathbed and be surrounded by people too stupid to understand—fussing about medicines instead of searching for wisdom. I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Philosophy, Stupid

  6 Copy quote

• Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility is completely unselfish. We want to protect, to spare those of whom we are fond. We forget that, regardless of the motive, the results of such action are almost always destructive and unproductive.

  Hortense Odlum

  Mother, Responsibility, Wife

  4 Copy quote

• Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Women, Earth, Doe

  13 Copy quote

• Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

  Albert Einstein

  Cooperation, Individual, Valuable

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.185, Open Road Media

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Compromise, Romantic Relationship, Courses

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Selfishness, Persons, Place In Life

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Elders and Betters”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Country, Men, Patriotism

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Mom, Selfish, Moving

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Kindness, Sacrifice, Feelings

  5 Copy quote

• No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.

  Charlaine Harris

  Suffering, Trying, Matter

  Charlaine Harris (2010). “Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.214, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Girl, Successful, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.53, Da Capo Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Religious, Book, Reading

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.52, Advaita Ashrama

  7 Copy quote

  Show source