Top 1200 Selfless Giving Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

Being an accompanist is very selfless in many ways because you're really just trying to elevate the singer and help them shine, ultimately.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Compassion goes on giving, but knows no feeling of giving, knows no feeling that "I am the giver." And then existence goes on responding in thousands of ways. You give a little love and from everywhere love starts flowing. The man of compassion is not trying to snatch anything away, he is not greedy. He does not wait for the return, he goes on giving. He goes on getting too, but that is not in his mind.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

Fostering is the most worthwhile and selfless act of love you can ever imagine. The children will teach you so much about your own life.

My message is that giving is very important. Giving is a Jewish thing, and I like to talk about that. There's nothing more important, personally, for anybody than being able to give.

There's nothing more satisfying than going to a market and meeting the person who picked the strawberries, or it's their farm that the strawberries came from, and giving them a fair value in exchange for what they're giving you.

I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.

It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.

I am inspired by the likes of Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana and those of their calibre. They understood fully what it means to be selfless and to stand for something.

I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.

Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us.

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead of giving a rifle, develop an educational system that is not about conflict and violence, but one that promotes respect for values, for life, and respect for one's elders. This requires a huge investment. Yet if we can invest in a different vision of peaceful coexistence, I think we can change the world, because every problem has a nonviolent answer.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

Keep believing in brighter days, finding ways for your dreams and wishes to come true. Giving you hope that is as certain as the sun, giving you strength of serenity as your guide.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!

When I was younger, I went with a friend of mine to Nairobi for 3 months and helped teach in an orphanage's school. It was a great experience and made me truly understand that giving back - by giving time, not just money - was so rewarding.

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.

When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.

The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness.

Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

The atonement of Jesus Christ is the supreme act of love, the supreme example of selfless concern for others.

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

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

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.

When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.

The best thing I learned from Manute was to be selfless. He was always about his people. He was about helping others.

I never understood when people would say, 'I would die for my child,' but you become so selfless.

My son's the most precious thing to me: He's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.

If people are a little more selfless, I am sure we can contribute a lot more to the green revolution.

Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?

We're not giving what we're called to give, unless that giving affects how we live - affects what we put on our plate and where we make our home and hang our hat and what kind of threads we've got to have on our back. Surplus Giving is the leftover you can afford to give; Sacrificial Giving is the love gift that changes how you live - because the love of Christ has changed you. God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

My reasons for getting into the entertainment business weren't entirely selfless. Hollywood as an industry can at times be insular and doesn't understand the market very well. I saw an opportunity in that fact.

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

I don't know, if I had the secret recipe that I actually could give everybody, I think it has to do very much with believing in yourself and giving time. Giving time to each member of the family.

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

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

People single you out when they think you're not giving your all. When they see you giving it all you have, they don't get on your case.

People love giving cooks spoons, I've noticed. Or, at least, they love giving them to me.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

Selfless acts are a source of profound meaning for your self and your life.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

My dad has this beautiful spirit of being able to create no matter where he is. He's always been so selfless with our family. It's hard to put words to it. He's an incredible man.

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

I've found that giving 100% to your job isn't the same as giving 100% of your life to your job. Very often when I thought I was giving 100% of my life to my job, I was simply obsessing over something.

Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!

It really takes something for someone to get up the nerve to share the impact you have had on them, and to them, giving you that recognition is liking giving a gift.

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.