Selflessness Quotes - Page 3

• Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

  Frans de Waal

  Self, Morality, Categorical Imperative

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• Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Medicine, Twenties, Firsts

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• The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His eyes, but also in the eyes of others. You can't airbrush that.

  Kylie Bisutti

  Beautiful, Humility, Eye

  Kylie Bisutti (2013). “I'm No Angel: From Victoria's Secret Model to Role Model”, p.244, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Winning, Years

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• Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate or your friend or your sister in Christ.

  Tobin Heath

  Delight, Teammate, Christ

  Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct

  Veronica Roth

  Bravery, Training, Different

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• If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity. Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate. If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people... If you want to conquer pride, do not say that your deed was done by your hands and might; say that with God's help and guidance it was done, not by my power and efforts.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Life, Nice, Pride

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• I sincerely believe that there is nothing truly great in any man or woman except their character, their willingness to move beyond the realm of self and into a greater realm of selflessness. Giving back is the ultimate talent in life. That is the greatest trophy on my mantel.

  Ozzie Smith

  Believe, Moving, Character

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• There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selflessness toward spiritual goals. The power of God working through such channels will bring unimaginable blessings to all concerned.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Blessing, Goal

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• The early doctrines of the church, even doctrines like Trinity and Incarnation were originally also calls for action, calls for selflessness, calls for compassion, and unless you live that out compassionately, selflessly, you didn't understand what the doctrine was saying.

  Karen Armstrong

  Compassion, Church, Doctrine

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today. The greatest periods of growth, particularly the first-century growth, took place in adversarial cultures. We are not hindered by external forces; we are hindered by our own lack of commitment and selflessness.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Commitment, Church Today, Growth

  "“I Am A Church Member” – A Conversation with Thom Rainer". Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. April 25, 2013.

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• I saw [Ronald] Reagan. I've watched Jimmy Carter and his selflessness, getting involved in things like votes in African countries, but also putting his foot right into the whole Israel-Palestine crisis. Sometimes into places where people are going, "Why are you doing that?" .

  David Mandel

  Country, Feet, Israel

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.

  Veronica Roth

  Natural, Goodness

  Veronica Roth (2011). “Divergent”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Love Is

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.43, Penguin

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• Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Self, Love Is

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• Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

  Margaret Landon

  Selfishness, Levels

  Margaret Landon (1945). “Anna and the King of Siam”

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• The heroic New York doctor who caught Ebola has been declared Ebola free. President Obama called the doctor to thank him for his selflessness and compassion. Then to be safe, Obama threw his phone in a trash can and lit it on fire.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Compassion, Fire

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• Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

  Edgar Degas

  Artist, Fifty, Twenties

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• So that's the process of understanding, and through that process, if you have a deep realization of the selflessness in regard to your absolute self, then it releases your relational self to be happily interconnected with everything in a blissful way. Then you yourself have "no problem" in the sense of no suffering. You reach Nirvana.

  Robert Thurman

  Self, Understanding, Suffering

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Character, Play, Numbers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India. 'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked. 'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Gratitude, Kindness, Father

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2007). “Queen of Dreams”, p.295, Anchor

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• Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin. Note: For Hyrum Smith's other ideas which he regards as pertinent to Success, see Topics: Character, Charity, Goals, Humility, Peace of Mind, Sacrifice, Success-Change-Personal Growth, Success-Change-Constructive Imagination, Wisdom

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Love, Hate, Character

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• Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Success, Wisdom, Peace

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• If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Doe, Analysis, Causes

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• I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Past, Careers, Years

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