Selflessness Quotes

• Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

  Nancy Astor

  Education, Teacher, Real

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• It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.17, Penguin Books India

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• We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Selfless Giving

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• True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. That is Christ's great atoning example for us, and it ought to be more evident in the kindness we show, the respect we give, and the selflessness and courtesy we employ in our personal relationships.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

  Natalie Merchant

  Friendship, Kindness, Debt

  Song: Kind and Generous, Album: Retrospective 1995-2005

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• With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Worthwhile Things, Discipline, Selfless

  Address to the officers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi, February 21, 1948.

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• If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

  Joyce Meyer

  Happy, Keys, Selfishness

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• Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.

  Colleen Hoover

  Care, Way, Pleasure

  Colleen Hoover (2015). “Confess: A Novel”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest achievement is selflessness.
  The greatest worth is self-mastery.
  The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
  The greatest precept is continual awareness.
  The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
  The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
  The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
  The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
  The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
  The greatest patience is humility.
  The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
  The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
  The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

  Atisa

  Letting Go, Humility, Passion

  "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

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• Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Yoga, Compassion, Selfless

  M.A. Center, Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “Lead Us To The Light”, p.216, M A Center

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• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

  Emily Saliers

  Heart, Love Is, Self

  "Emily Saliers: Growing as an artist, helping the environment, and doing things that scare her". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

  Suzy Kassem

  Humility, Men, Honorable Man

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• I've learned that selflessness is a practice, not a place; a journey much more than a destination.

  Kayla Mueller

  Journey, Practice, I've Learned

  "Walking the Via Dolorosa: Young People in Solidarity—Until the End" by Jordan Denari, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2015.

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• Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

  Steven Pressfield

  Warrior, May, Virtue

  Steven Pressfield (2011). “The Warrior Ethos”, p.41, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• ...there is power in self-sacrifice.

  Veronica Roth

  Sacrifice, Self, Self Sacrifice

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• True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.

  Rick Joyner

  Sacrifice, Christianity, Lord

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from May 24, 2015

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• Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Looks, How You Feel, Way

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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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• I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

  Veronica Roth

  Bravery, Divergent, Different

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• Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.

  Gerry Adams

  Determination, Struggle, Selfless

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

  Ramakrishna

  Heart, Talking, Grace

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Existence, Seeds

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Charity, Firsts, Philanthropy

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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