Selflessness Quotes

As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one's time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage.

Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you'll find someone who loves you the exact same way.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got. Everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.

If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

To give one's heart is to give all.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Everything that is not given is lost.

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.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Service to man is service to god.