Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Politician, Lawyer
"With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve."
Selfless quotes
Selfless
93 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart."
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress."
Gerry Adams
Politician
"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment."
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Politician, Lawyer
"You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it."
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"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."
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"Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless."
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"Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her."
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"If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times."
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"Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?"
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"Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless."
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"Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?"
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"I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either."
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"I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world."
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"I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked."
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"My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love."
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"When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause"
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"There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same."
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"Selfless action is a source of strength."
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"Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses."
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"To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless."
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"When you take responsibility over others you have to be actually Selfless."
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"Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest."
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"To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains."
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"Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world."
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