Top 195 Unselfish Quotes & Sayings

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

People have always told me, 'Yo, you're too unselfish. Shoot more.'

To win a championship, you need an unselfish mindset.

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may not have been perfectly unselfish; yet he was tending towards it. If he had been perfectly unselfish, his would have been as great a success as that of the Buddha or of the Christ. The degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.

You can be selfish by being too unselfish at times.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

I'm a versatile point guard who is unselfish and can score at all three levels.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

To have a high basketball IQ, I think you have to be unselfish, but also selfish at the same time. To be able to say, okay, I know this is going to work, so let's do it.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

We are unselfish and we trust each other

I'm not too selfish or unselfish.

LeBron is the most unselfish superstar we have.

Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.

Kris Kristofferson and Steve Goodman were the two most unselfish people I ever met.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.

The thing about LeBron is he's very unselfish, right? So he can pass the ball.

An unselfish dream, goal, or service can help us to the height of spiritual living.

True friendship is an unconditional, unselfish, reciprocal service not by lips, but heart to never let its in-built trust to ever fall apart.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good about themselves. Even that really is a selfish decision.

Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

Reach out a hand to your brother, for the unselfish look out for their fellow man.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!

I'm an unselfish player.

It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must necessarily be molded by the character of the object worshipped. If it is a cruel and revengeful God, or a selfish and unjust God, the worshiper will be cruel, and revengeful, and selfish, and unjust, also. If it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be loving, and tender, and forgiving, and unselfish, as well.

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

I've always dreamed about playing for a team that's unselfish.

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

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

D-Wade is the unselfish guy here-he is welcoming Chris Bosh and LeBron James to his team.

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

I try to play defense and be an unselfish teammate.

If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.