Veronica Roth
Author
"...there is power in self-sacrifice."
Selflessness quotes
Selflessness
15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed."
Cole Younger
Outlaw
"I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves."
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"What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness."
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"The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end."
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