Selfless Quotes - Page 5

• Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Time, Men, Action

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• Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Attitude, Yoga

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• A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary. Be completely selfless; realize you're only an instrument of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Missionary, Way

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• Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Science, Two

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.102

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• Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?

  Ayn Rand

  Selfish, Giving, Desire

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.31, Penguin

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• There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as "worship" in case we believe in a Personal God. Here we give up all the fruits our work unto the Lord, and worshipping Him thus, we have no right to expect anything from man kind for the work we do.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Believe, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.27, Advaita Ashrama

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• The number of those who do selfless public service and those who serve without expecting any return, should increase. Their sterling qualities should show the way to the people at large. Their life would be a model to show how man should conduct himself in public life.

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Men, Numbers, People

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• There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.

  L. Neil Smith

  Ambitious, Massachusetts, Noble

  "Pursuing Invariably the Same Object". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 18, 2010.

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• Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Oneness, Perfect

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Unique, Two, Years

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• Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.

  Colleen Saidman

  Yoga, Order, Meditation

  "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  Selfish, Opportunity, Journey

  Margaret Cho (2006). “I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up - it's simply having a good time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Nice, Yoga

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• There's Chile and there's Uruguay, and no one quite knows why Uruguay is so appealingly selfless because they've had their terror and their revolution like all the rest. But somehow, there's something in them.

  Martin Amis

  Revolution, Terror

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Compassion

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• Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Mean

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• If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Spiritual, Yoga

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• The key to selfless giving is that you feel good when you do it and you feel good afterwards.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Keys

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• In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

  Gao Xingjian

  Writing, Self, Literature

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• Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Self

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• I practice selfless giving not because I'm remarkable but just because I find that its terrifically fun!

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Fun, Yoga

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• If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Thinking

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• Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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