Quotes about Giving and Selflessness

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

Death

Time after time after time I do all this shit for other people, and then I wake up and I'm empty. I have nothing.

Tifanny in Silver Linings

Breakup

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again.

Bob Marley

Life

Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.

General Iroh in The Legend of Korra - Season 2 Episode 10

Problems

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

Friendship

Does it really need a reason to help somebody?

Zidane Tribal in Final Fantasy - IX

Being nice

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

Life

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

J.M. Barrie

Positive Quotes Being nice

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Taylor Swift

Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

Kanye West

Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave.

Matthew - 20, 26-27

Work

The more love you give, the more you own.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Sadhu Vaswani

Love

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn

Hands

Don't light yourself on fire to keep somebody else warm.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

John Bunyan

Life is a boomerang: you get back what you give.

Dale Carnegie

Life Karma

Life isn't just doing things for yourself. It's possible to live in such a way that other people's happiness, makes you happy too.

Yuuki Asuna in Sword Art Online

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

Suze Orman

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

William Arthur Ward

Friendship

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nurses

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Bob Marley

Greed

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

Heart Nurses

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud!

Maya Angelou

Rainbows

True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.

Alek Wek

Beauty

The man of courage thinks not of himself.

Friedrich Schiller in William Tell

A man who would save others, must first save himself.

Druid in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

Don't ask what life is giving you, ask what you are giving.

Alfred Adler

Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.

Soman Chainani in The School for Good and Evil

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

Bill Russell

Teams

A society grows great when old men plant trees the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people, that's it, the end.

Anne in After Life

Trees

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

Jerry Springer

To take, one must first learn to give.

Ivern, the Green Father in League of Legends

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

Harmon Killebrew

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

John Travolta

Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.

Paul Allen

Money Helping

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Light Helping

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Samuel Smiles

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

Dada Vaswani

Happiness

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Alphonse Karr

Love

We all have the duty to do good.

Pope Francis

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Calvin Coolidge

Honor

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Cesar Chavez

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Ellen DeGeneres

Humanity Honesty

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Blaise Pascal

Kindness

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Leo Tolstoi

Wise Sayings Helping

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

Friendship

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Save one life, and you're a hero. Save 100 lives, well then, you're a nurse.

Mildred Ratched in Ratched

Nurses

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain

Humanity Gratitude Animals Dogs

The only time that we are allowed to look down upon others: when we are offering to help them up.

Pope Francis - August 2023

Getting up Helping

The noblest art is that of making others happy.

P.T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman

Being nice

...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Kindness

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