Unselfishness Quotes

Unselfishness Quote of the day

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.

There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian

Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.

Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

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

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.

We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.

In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.

Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.

Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.

You can't do it better without teamwork.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

You don't 'love' people when they are 'nice'. Don't you see that's the same as saying 'what's in it for me'?

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.