All Quotes By Tag: Selflessness
“Great leaders feels the need of their people, more than their own.”
“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.”
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“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”
“But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self – a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.”
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“Focus on building up others, and your own sense of self-worth will improve. Some call these random acts of human kindness. But the truth is, acting unselfishly is not random at all. Instead, it is a conscious, concerted effort to make the world better by making someone else’s life better. The bonus: you will be happier by doing it.”
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“In my pursuit of happiness, I’ve come to the realization that there’s really no selfless act of kindness or selfless act of love. People do good, and help others because it makes them feel good, relevant and important.”
“Sacrificing one’s own happiness for others is not everyone’s cup of tea but if you can taste it once nothing tastes more than that thereafter.-Giridhar Alwar”
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“If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.”
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“The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness”
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“In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and that is the right to be protected. That is my doctrine. You are married; try and make the woman you love happy. Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says ‘I will make her happy,’ makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, ‘I will make him happy.’ There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so.”
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“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It’s more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.”
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“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”
“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.”
“Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.”
“God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.”