Selflessness Quotes

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”

“When you're a mother, you're not the center of your own universe. You are a planet to your children.”

“For my own part I do not wish to be free, yet I should be glad if others, especially the young negroes, were to be free.”

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

“The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.”

“To be a child is to be other-centered.”

“When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.”

“The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.”

“The nature of love is to give, not to get.”

“Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”

“To be happy, we need to get out of our own heads and serve other people.”

“We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are.”

“Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

“We played for the song. We didn't play for ourselves.”

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”

“In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.”

“The only sin is selfishness.”

“To love is to prefer another to oneself.”