Selfless Quotes - Page 7

• When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.

  Royce White

  War, Joy

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• Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.

  William J. Clinton

  Gratitude, Safety, Liberty

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• On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.

  Lawrence Reed

  People, Heartless, Stripes

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• International war is the sum total of millions of individual wars, raging in the minds of the people, between what is selfish and what is selfless. To the extent that you and I develop selflessness in our own hearts, to that extent we contribute to peace in our family, community, country, and world.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Country, Selfish, War

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• Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.

  Michael Irvin

  Selfish, Play, Leader

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• The American servicemen and women of the Guard and Reserve leave their jobs, their spouses and their children to wear the uniform that defends our country. This selfless commitment should be honored by businesses across Massachusetts as we work to ensure they are treated fairly while they balance their employment responsibilities and obligations to the armed services. No business should ever put the bottom line ahead of America's front line.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Effort, And Love, Pure

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 8”, p.68, M A Center

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• There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think of their children before they think about themselves.

  Tichina Arnold

  Mom, Children, Motherhood

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• That's what YouTube's become, it's become like a lot of vloggers capitalizing on this sort of like "My fans, I love my fans, hey guys." I've grown up and kind of been disgusted by that. I think it's using people, I think it's like encouraging something that's unhealthy, telling people you love them. "I love you." Oh really, you love your fans? You love the people that give you money and attention? Of course you do, that's not selfless that you love your fans, that's ridiculous.

  Bo Burnham

  Using People, Love You, Thinking

  Source: www.uloop.com

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• That's what I do. I just let Mother Earth use me, in many, many instances, especially when I am working with pollution. She is a very real Spirit - she is your mother, and if you open to Her, she can come in and use you in a way that is very powerful. That is what Mother Teresa has done, by being selfless.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Mother, Powerful, Real

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• Purity comes from Seva... it comes from selfless love.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Purity, Selfless Love

  Source: souljourns.net

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• Develop divine love. Divine love is completely selfless.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Divine, Divine Love

  Source: souljourns.net

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• Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have to be gung ho athletes and sensitive artists, studious nerds and gregarious social networkers, future rulers of the universe and selfless altruists.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Athlete, College, Artist

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• In fact there are beautiful people in this world doing incredibly selfless acts over and over and over. Dedicating their lives completely for the welfare and happiness of others.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Beautiful, People, World

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• In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act

  Sally Brampton

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• I'm very proud to be part of a cast that's gonna put Hot Shots on screen for the first time, Hot Shots are the first line of defense against wildland fire and these guys are so selfless, they are guys that do what they do without wanting any kind of attention for it.

  Miles Teller

  Fire, Guy, Attention

  Source: collider.com

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• Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.

  Candace Cameron

  Children, Patient, Made

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• I could never get bored talking about him, he was my favourite player. I loved watching him because he did everything you'd want to see in a footballer. He could dictate the pace of a game; he could take it by the scruff of the neck and control it; he could score decisive goals; he could make the killer pass; he could switch the play, open teams up, slow the game down, quicken it up; whatever was needed. He would take the ball anywhere on the pitch He was such a selfless footballer, too Scholesy was the man, all right.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Team, Player, Men

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• Selfless action is a source of strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Action, Source, Source Of Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “Collected Works”

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• It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.

  Jon Porter

  Wrath, Volunteer, Needs

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• Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.

  Sai Baba

  Heart, Sleep, Selfless Giving

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• Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.

  William Temple

  Heart, Self, Worship Music

  William Temple (1939). “Readings in St. John's Gospel ...”

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• Babies just change everything. You have to become super-selfless and super-tired and super-amenable to change. They just change all the time.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Baby, Tired, Amenable

  "Neil Patrick Harris' House Is Open for Trick-or-Treaters". Interview with Fred Topel, patch.com. October 31, 2011.

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• I walked away from this movie thinking how important it is to have a genuine selfless love for your children. You can really mess kids up if you don't have the right kind of love for them.

  Jonathan Jackson

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Roots, Hatred, Doctrine

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.78, Penguin Books India

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