Unselfish Quotes - Page 6

• A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Selfishness, Persons, Place In Life

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Elders and Betters”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.

  Cyril Connolly

  Sex, Revenge, War

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• Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Selfish, Impulse, Humans

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.202, Library of America

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• To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Responsibility, People, Temptation

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

  John Cleese

  Want, Great Things, Wells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the
  selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the
  unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wise, Appreciation, Selfish

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.82, Faber & Faber

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• True Christianity is love in action. There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for your fellow men. This is the spirit of missionary work

  David O. McKay

  Men, Missionary, Unselfish Love

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• That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Beautiful, Order

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed”, p.22

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• Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility is completely unselfish. We want to protect, to spare those of whom we are fond. We forget that, regardless of the motive, the results of such action are almost always destructive and unproductive.

  Hortense Odlum

  Mother, Responsibility, Wife

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• Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Women, Earth, Doe

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• Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

  Albert Einstein

  Cooperation, Individual, Valuable

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.185, Open Road Media

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• When you're in a romantic relationship, of course, there is a lot more compromise and you have to be a lot more unselfish.

  Olivia Wilde

  Compromise, Romantic Relationship, Courses

  Source: collider.com

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• The Spurs really are a family. They have a bunch of good guys that want to win, and the way they play is so unselfish. I’m looking forward to being involved in it. I feel that teams with players who are very close end up winning.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  Team, Winning, Player

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• It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Lying, Power, Men

  Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

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• How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct.

  B. C. Forbes

  Money, Men, Grace

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• I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread of aspiration that runs strong in them. It is the fiber that has formed the most unselfish creatures who inhabit this earth. They want three things only; for their children to be fed, to be healthy, and to make the most of themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Mother, Running, Strong

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• An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing of the spirit. It is a generous and humane desire that all men may share equally in a common good. Our ideals are the cement, which binds human society.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Desire, May

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Country, Gratitude, Peace

  "A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time Vol. V". Book by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, 1888.

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• None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, And Love, Able

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1984, Manonmani Publishers

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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, Unselfish Acts

  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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• There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.

  William Henry Drummond

  Greatness, Unselfish Love

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• I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.

  Jack London

  Life, Spiritual, Sweet

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.7429, Delphi Classics

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• Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

  Stephen G. Post

  People, Important, Unselfish Love

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• There are three kinds of love;
  unselfish, mutual, and selfish.
  The unselfish love is of the highest kind;
  The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings.
  In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved;
  but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling.
  The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness,
  no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.

  Ramakrishna

  Selfish, Eye, Love Is

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