Selfless quotes
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Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
I don't believe all rich people are selfless philanthropists.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say 'We're Liverpool'.
-- Bill Shankly -
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Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?
-- Billy Graham -
Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.
-- Bob Goff -
Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to know the person, you can understand why they make those choices, even if they're bad. And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted.
-- Bob Odenkirk -
I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.
-- Cammie McGovern -
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Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.
-- Chelsea Clinton -
True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
-- Dada Vaswani -
The temple is a point of intersection between heaven and earth. In this sacred place, holy work will be performed through selfless service and love. The temple reminds [us] of all that is good and beautiful in the world.
-- David A. Bednar -
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
-- David Hume -
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Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
-- Edward Albert -
There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.
-- Frank Herbert -
For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.
-- James McAvoy -
Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
-- John Cusack -
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A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?
-- John Dufresne -
Selfless giving is a guaranteed way to increase feelings of love.
-- Jude Bijou -
...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others
-- Karen Armstrong -
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
-- Katherine Dunn -
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It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance.
-- Kevin Myers -
It is my inmost conviction, Badshah Khan said, that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat – selfless service, faith, and love.
-- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan -
Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.
-- Knut Hamsun -
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
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Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person.
-- Mas Oyama -
When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.
-- Masiela Lusha -
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
-- Michael Eisner -
More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.
-- Mike Tomlin -
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Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other.
-- Milton Mayeroff -
If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.
-- Montel Williams -
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
-- Mortimer Adler -
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
-- Muhammad Ali Jinnah -
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The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer's there and he knows exactly how it's supposed to be said. So you can't really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
-- Niels Bohr -
Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
-- Ramakrishna -
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My son's the most precious thing to me: He's changed me from being selfish to selfless.
-- Ricardo Antonio Chavira -
An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.
-- Robert Gottlieb -
Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.
-- Sakyong Mipham -
Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals.
-- Sivaya Subramuniyaswami -
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Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.
-- Steve Buyer -
But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
-- Taylor Hackford -
I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either.
-- Veronica Roth -
A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless.
-- Alyson Richman -
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To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless.
-- Benjamin Stone -
Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on.
-- John L'Heureux -
When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.
-- Royce White -
Every day, do something selfless for someone else that takes under five minutes. The essence of this thing you do should be that it makes a big difference to the person receiving the gift. Usually these favors take the form of an introduction, reference, feedback, or broadcast on social media. Do something that's not for yourself, every single day. Expect nothing in return. Over time, these random acts of kindness will really add up.
-- Adam Rifkin -
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We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.
-- Eden Robinson -
It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.
-- Jon Porter -
"It is my inmost conviction," Badshah Khan said, "that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat" - selfless service, faith, and love.
-- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
