Selfless Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have in my own preconceived silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am, which is really just another child of God - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen.

  John McLaughlin

  Children, Lying, Silly

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• I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.

  Eva Longoria

  Mother, Powerful, Volunteer

  "More Than a Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria Talks Activism". Interview with Avital Andrews, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I always try to do something for my husband that's completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.

  Jessica Alba

  Fashion, Husband, Rocks

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.

  Susan Orlean

  Mean, Animal, Instinct

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Spiritual strength frequently comes through selfless service.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Spiritual, Selfless Service, Spiritual Strength

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• My stand is clear; produce to distribute, feed before you eat, give before you take, think of others before you think of yourself. Only a selfless society based on sharing can be stable and happy. This is the only practical solution. If you do not want it, then - fight.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Fighting, Thinking, Giving

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• The temple is a point of intersection between heaven and earth. In this sacred place, holy work will be performed through selfless service and love. The temple reminds [us] of all that is good and beautiful in the world.

  David A. Bednar

  Beautiful, Heaven, And Love

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• Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.

  John Baldoni

  Knowing, Odds, Feelings

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• Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Taoism, Sage

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Self

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Nice, Yoga

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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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• 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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• Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

  Christofer Drew

  Heart, Roots, Keys

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