Selfless is caring more for what other people need and want rather than for what you yourself need and want. Inspirational selfless quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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Most Famous Selfless Quotes
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. Dalai Lama
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. Nancy Astor
Real living is living for others. Bruce Lee
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. John Holmes
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy true fulfillment. Tony Robbins
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. Nancy Astor
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Gautama Buddha
Selfless action is a source of strength. Mahatma Gandhi
No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank
Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace. Christofer Drew
Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace. Christofer Drew
Every unselfish act of love whispers God’s name. Bob Goff
If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy! Joyce Meyer
When two people love each other, they don’t look at each other, they look in the same direction. Ginger Rogers
For your kindness, I’m in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration. Natalie Merchant
True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice. Sadhu Vaswani
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. Dalai Lama
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. Hada Bejar
I’ve learned that selflessness is a practice, not a place; a journey much more than a destination. Kayla Mueller
True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. Jeffrey R. Holland
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. Dalai Lama
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. Thomas Merton
True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. That is Christ’s great atoning example for us, and it ought to be more evident in the kindness we show, the respect we give, and the selflessness and courtesy we employ in our personal relationships. Jeffrey R. Holland
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
True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice. Sadhu Vaswani
Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself. Zac Hanson
Love is selflessness and self fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart. Emily Saliers
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. Mortimer Adler
Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self assertion, self expression and a celebration of being alive. Nathaniel Branden
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve. Marianne Williamson
Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. Thomas Merton
By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer, we often find the answers to our own. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. Mortimer Adler
I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do. Jana Stanfield
The meaning of love is obviously huge but for me, it means be nice to people, and people will be nice to you back. Love is a selfless place to be. There is no safer place to be than under the canopy of love. Benjamin Clementine
Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves. Nina Hagen
Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself. Zac Hanson
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. James Keller
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
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. Napoleon Hill
Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love. Frederick Lenz
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. Dalai Lama
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues selflessness. Steven Pressfield
Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return. Roy T. Bennett
I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different. Veronica Roth
No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment. Gerry Adams
There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others. Mandy Hale
A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares. Debi Mazar
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give I give myself. Walt Whitman
Each day, millions of police officers do the selfless work of putting their lives on the line to protect civilians, frequently responding to or preventing crises completely with no recognition. Letitia James
To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don’t think I’m that selfless and giving. Chris Parnell
We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens
True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves. Rick Joyner
For your kindness, I’m in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration. Natalie Merchant
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that. Imran Khan
Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter. Denis Leary
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you. Ramakrishna
Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others. Bryant McGill
The Savior was selfless. He viewed himself and his own needs as secondary, and he ministered to others tirelessly, lovingly, effectively. Joseph B. Wirthlin
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? Martin Luther King Jr
Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be. Harry Frankfurt
The greatest achievement is selflessness. Atisa
Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths. Mata Amritanandamayi
Share everything. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Put things back where you found them. Robert Fulghum
It’s very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, This is a good guy, this is a bad guy. And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that. Hugh Grant
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. Helen Keller
The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness. Robert E. Ornstein
It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. Edward Albert
