Selfless Quotes - Page 6

• More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.

  Mike Tomlin

  Humble, Grounded

  "Inside Tomlin's style: Humility, words matter for Steelers coach" by Jarrett Bell, USA Today, January 31, 2009.

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• Selfless giving has a lot to do with what happens to you in the future. There is karma, both good and bad.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Esteem, Humility, Vanity

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• ...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others

  Karen Armstrong

  Compassion, Concern For Others, Inspire

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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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• Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Selfish, Yoga

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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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• What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.

  Thomas Merton

  Selfish, Free Gifts, Perfection

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• "It is my inmost conviction," Badshah Khan said, "that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat" - selfless service, faith, and love.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Islam, And Love, Conviction

  "A Man to Match His Mountains: Badshah Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam". Book by Eknath Easwaran, 1984.

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• Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself.

  Zac Hanson

  Giving Up, Love Is, 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 burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Compassion, Selfless Giving

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• Scott Brooks you mean the world to me. I love you. You as a man, I never met anybody like you. So selfless. You don't take the credit for nothing, Even though you deserve all of it. I love you and your family for always taking me in, Believing in me, Texting me late at night when I was going crazy. Thank you. Thank you.

  Kevin Durant

  Crazy, Believe, Love You

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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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• To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of their greatest weapon. Even if they break our bodies and drain our blood, we are unvanquished. Our goal was never to live; our goal is to love. It is the goal of all truly noble men and women. Give all that can be given. Give even your life itself.

  N.D. Wilson

  Love Is, Men, Noble Man

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• An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Strong, Editors, Strong Minded

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• 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

  Selfish, Desire, Satisfaction

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• One makes a gift of one's life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, and devotion and selfless service. When seeking to uplift others, we are uplifted in the process. Every kind thought or smile therefore benefits oneself as well as all the world.

  David Hawkins

  Uplifting, Kind Thoughts, Benefits

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• When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Shining, Joy

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• Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

  Clayton Christensen

  Christian, Children, Community

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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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• It's always said that when one is a soldier who dies in battle, you go to a very high world. There's a great and good karma for the soldier who dies in battle because it's an extended selfless giving.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving!

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Crazy, Yoga

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• ...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent selfless sacrifice for the greater good, and who justify their contempt by saying, oh, it's so unrealistic, no one would ever be so noble... grow up. Seriously. Cynicism is not maturity, do not mistake the one for the other. If you truly cannot accept a story where someone does the right thing because it's the right thing to do, that says far more about who you are than these characters.

  Greg Rucka

  Growing Up, Mistake, Hero

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• God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service.  They are the teachers whose names will never be in the newspaper, pastors who will never author a book, managers who will never be profiled in a magazine, artists whose work is buried in layers of collaboration, writers whose sphere of influence is a few dozen people who read their blogs.  But they are the army that makes things happen.  To them devotion is its own reward.  For them influence is a continual act of giving, nothing more complicated than that.

  Mel Lawrenz

  Teacher, Book, Army

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