Quotes of Unselfish - somelinesforyou

“ Work done with selfish motives is inferior by far to the selfless service or Karma-yoga. Therefore be a Karma-yogi, O Arjuna. Those who seek. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ 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

“ When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb. ”

- Pat Riley

“ You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way. ”

- Barbara Bush

“ To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. ”

- Buddha

“ The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. ”

- Helen Keller

“ 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

“ If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times. ”

- Montel Williams

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. ”

- Mortimer Adler

“ 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

“ God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections. ”

- Mary Howitt

“ 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

“ 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

“ Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas. ”

- B.C. Forbes

“ 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

“ Let everyone see that you are unselfish and considerate in all you do. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Modesty and unselfishness — these are virtues which men praise-and pass by. ”

- Andre Maurois

“ No other influence that can surround the human soul has such power as the influence of an unselfish life. ”

- Ellen Gould White

“ 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

“ Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. ”

- George Santayana

“ 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

“ Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. ”

- Israel Zangwill

“ 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

“ 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

“ The rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ 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
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