“ One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
- 1.5K
“ There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first…when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. ”
- Paramahansa Yogananda- Copy
- 48
“ When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb. ”
- Pat Riley- Copy
- 929
“ You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way. ”
- Barbara Bush- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
- 1.2K
“ If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times. ”
- Montel Williams- Copy
- 1.1K
“ There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior. ”
- Jessica Alba- Copy
- 1.1K
“ She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end doing them irreparable harm. ”
- Marcia Muller- Copy
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“ I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa. ”
- Shahrukh Khan- Copy
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“ Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. ”
- Mortimer Adler- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I ruefully realized I should have listened to my own common sense rather than the advice of others who have the less-than-altruistic motive of making money. ”
- Joan Collins- Copy
- 3.6K
“ God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections. ”
- Mary Howitt- Copy
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“ A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small. ”
- Eva K. Logue- Copy
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“ A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action. ”
- David Seabury- Copy
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“ Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas. ”
- B.C. Forbes- Copy
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“ In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
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“ Let everyone see that you are unselfish and considerate in all you do. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Modesty and unselfishness — these are virtues which men praise-and pass by. ”
- Andre Maurois- Copy
- 3.1K
“ No other influence that can surround the human soul has such power as the influence of an unselfish life. ”
- Ellen Gould White- Copy
- 3.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Reason, progress, unselfishness, a wide historical perspective, expansiveness, generosity, enlightened self-interest. I had heard it all my life, and it filled me with despair. ”
- Katherine Tait- Copy
- 1K
“ Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. ”
- Israel Zangwill- Copy
- 629
“ The American people have a genius for splendid and unselfish action, and into the hands of America, God has placed the destinies of afflicted humanity. ”
- Pope Pius XII- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition. ”
- Dale Carnegie- Copy
- 294
“ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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