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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. -- Israel Zangwill
Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it. -- Swami Vivekananda
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. -- Andre Maurois
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. -- B. C. Forbes
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. -- B. C. Forbes
I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with. -- Shakira
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action. -- David Seabury
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. -- Jessica Lange
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. -- George Santayana
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement. -- Dag Hammarskjold
The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it. -- Woodrow Wilson
The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish. -- J. G. Holland
A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise. -- Richard Aldington
The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself. -- Theodor Reik
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them -- George Bernard Shaw
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion....Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. -- Hector Hugh Munro
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches. -- Sri Aurobindo
Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition. -- Swami Vivekananda
Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world. -- Swami Vivekananda
Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps. -- Obafemi Awolowo
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. -- Oscar Wilde
Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish. -- C. S. Lewis
The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes. -- Orison Swett Marden
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute. -- Bill Russell
I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness. -- E. M. Forster
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas. -- B. C. Forbes
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If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. -- C. S. Lewis
[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals -- John Wooden
I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language. -- Theodore Roosevelt
We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned. -- Lyman Abbott
If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness. -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness. -- Frederick Lenz
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness. -- Frederick Lenz
Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light. -- Emily Post
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