Selflessness Quotes

"I am happy even if I am not playing but the team is winning."

"I always put myself second - I like to make others happy."

"Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real."

Iris Murdoch

"The loveless keep everything for themselves; the loving belong to others, even to their very bones."

Thiruvalluvar

"Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates."

Magic Johnson

"Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grow grains, but they are consumed by the world. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness."

Munshi Premchand

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"To love is to will the good of the other."

Thomas Aquinas

“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

“Too much self-centred attitude brings isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centred attitude is the source of suffering.”

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

“In order to be successful in any kind of undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause.”

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

Robert A. Heinlein

"Love is expansion, selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life."

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

Greek Proverb

“He's the most selfless man I know, and I think if I'm half the man he is, I'll be all right in this world.”

Josh Allen

"Goodness is something so simple: always to live for others, never to seek one's own advantage."

Dag Hammarskjold

"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness."

John Stuart Mill

“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”

“They alone live who live for others; the rest are more dead than alive.”

“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life.”

“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”