Selfless Quotes - Page 3

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the 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?

We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.

Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

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.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either.

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

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.

No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.

Selfless action is a source of strength.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

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.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.

Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.