Veronica Roth Quotes

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

Growth is not concerned with itself.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

The secret to success is to subjugate your ego and serve others.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

My mom always said if you have a gift, it is absolutely not about you. So I don't get twisted and think for one second it's all about me.

It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

I am learning to be more humble and giving as a person.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.

The Savior taught His disciples, 'For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it' (Luke 9:24)."I believe the Savior is telling us that unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives. Those who live only for themselves eventually shrivel up and figuratively lose their lives, while those who lose themselves in service to others grow and flourish—and in effect save their lives.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.