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

  • Selfishness is the only real atheism.

    Israel Zangwill (1901). “Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People”, p.1004, Library of Alexandria
  • The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

  • Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps.

    Sacrifice   Self   People  
  • The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination.

    Spiritual   Taken   Heart  
    Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.90, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
  • When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  • A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. . . . The fact that there is an end to one's life compels one to take an interest in things that will continue to live after one is dead.

    Facts   Life Is   Reason  
  • I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

  • The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

  • The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

    Selfish   Men   Thinking  
    Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.14, Transaction Publishers
  • The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.

    Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”
  • 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.

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

    Richard Aldington (1931). “The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
  • 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.

    Self   Years   Generosity  
  • The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.

    Blessed   Home   Biblical  
  • Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

  • Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

    Basketball   Team   Nba  
    Bill Russell, David Falkner (2001). “Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner”, p.36, Penguin
  • Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.

    Karma   Yoga   Self  
  • There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

    Love   Heart   Sacrifice  
    1843 'The Black Cat', in the United States Saturday Post,19 Aug.
  • A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

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

  • 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.

    Mean   Mad   Secret  
  • 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.

    Light   Self   Ability  
    Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.509, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

    Use   World   May  
  • Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.

    Crush   Able   Faces  
    Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.202, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
  • Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God; for we may be come upon at any moment for an almost heroic display of good temper. It is a short road to unselfishness; for nothing is left to self. All that seems to belong most intimately to self, to be self's private property, such as time, home, and rest, are invaded by these continual trials of patience.

    Home   Exercise   Self  
  • Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding...And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.

  • 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.

    Real   Religion   Atheism  
    Israel Zangwill (1901). “Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People”, p.1004, Library of Alexandria
  • Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

    "The Chronicles of Clovis". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1911.
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