Unselfish Acts Quotes

• The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Sweet, Memories

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.245, Library of Alexandria

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• Almost every day brings opportunities to perform unselfish acts for others. Such acts are unlimited and can be as simple as a kind word, a helping hand, or a gracious smile.

  James E. Faust

  Opportunity, Simple, Hands

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• A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.

  Ellen G. White

  Christian, Humility, Helping Others

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• Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Confidence, Honesty, Patriotic

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Smile, Appreciation, Kindness

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

  David Niven

  War, Humanity, Unselfish Love

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• A truly unselfish act is not mine, but God's. It cannot be obstructed. Only for my own plans, my own wishes to study, to work, to rest, eat, or do a service to my fellowman- can some external circumstance "get in the way," and then I am grieved.

  Tito Colliander

  Wish, Asceticism, Way

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.22, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Sports, Team

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• Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father.

  Jack H. Goaslind

  Dream, Kindness, Father

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• When all is said and done, the unselfish acts of what we have done without asking for anything in return, will have said it all.

  Brian Jett

  Asking, Done, Return

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