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Selfless Quotes

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With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With trust, commitment and altruistic dedication to obligation, there is nothing of value that you cannot accomplish.
Authors on Selfless Quotes: Mata Amritanandamayi Mahatma Gandhi Frederick Lenz Sylvia Plath Sathya Sai Baba Veronica Roth Neil Patrick Harris Thomas S. Monson Muhammad Ali Jinnah Swami Vivekananda Andrei Tarkovsky Michael Eisner Cammie McGovern Frank Herbert Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Vladimir Lenin Bill Shankly Joshua Harris Laozi Radhanath Swami Muhammad Yunus Denis Leary Linda Chavez Andy Stanley Mike Tomlin Eden Robinson Niels Bohr Robert Gottlieb Billy Graham John Rzeznik Laura Linney Cassandra Clare John Cusack
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Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.
Bob Goff

Altruistic affection is always expensive; terror can't pay for it, arrogance doesn't comprehend it and comrades never fail to remember it.
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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

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Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
Sivananda

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More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.
Mike Tomlin

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When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.
Thomas S. Monson

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It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
Michael Eisner

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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

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Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

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"It is my inmost conviction," Badshah Khan said, "that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat" - selfless service, faith, and love.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

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Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
Ramakrishna

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Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.
Knut Hamsun

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Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.
Sakyong Mipham

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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

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Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.
Mata Amritanandamayi

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Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.
Gerry Adams

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You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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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

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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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The guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see him not only in his body but in every living and nonliving thing in this world. Learn to see everything as the guru's body and to serve them accordingly.
Mata Amritanandamayi

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Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
Edward Albert

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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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The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of this earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible.
Mata Amritanandamayi

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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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Purity comes from Seva... it comes from selfless love.
Sathya Sai Baba

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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels Bohr

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Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
Vladimir Lenin

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Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!
Rajneesh

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Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other.
Milton Mayeroff

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

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

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Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.
Denis Leary

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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

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When I'm around people who are incredibly passionate about what they're doing, people who live their lives in a more selfless way than most people. That's when I'm inspired. That's what I aspire to do and be.
John Rzeznik

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In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies.
Mata Amritanandamayi

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Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.
Joshua Harris

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Purify the mind through selfless service.
Mata Amritanandamayi

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True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
Dada Vaswani

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

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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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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?
Andrei Tarkovsky

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We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.
Spencer W. Kimball

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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

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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.
Sylvia Plath

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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
Gautama Buddha