Quotes of Selflessness - somelinesforyou

“ To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate. ”

- Michael Jordan

“ A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Real living is living for others. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. ”

- Samuel Beckett

“ I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing. ”

- Tom Cruise

“ Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them. ”

- Robert Fulghum

“ Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry. ”

- John L. Lewis

“ When two people love each other, they don't look at each other; they look in the same direction. ”

- Ginger Rogers

“ I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. ”

- Charlie Chaplin

“ I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. ”

- Adam Smith

“ If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. ”

- Og Mandino

“ I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much. ”

- Nicole Kidman

“ Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. ”

- Thomas Merton

“ The ultimate mystery is one's own self. ”

- Sammy Davis Jr.

“ I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more. ”

- Chris Martin

“ Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?". ”

- Brian Tracy

“ This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean. ”

- Mitch Albom

“ Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. ”

- Walt Disney

“ If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom would have a lot more. ”

- Chris Martin

“ Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ”

- Thomas Merton

“ I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life. ”

- Anthony Perkins

“ Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into selflessness which links us to all humanity. ”

- Mary Astor
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