George Eliot Quotes

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.

Be more concerned with everybody else than yourself.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

It's always easier to sacrifice when you're not the one who has to do it.

I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests. And that is the reason of Christianity. Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs.

Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.

Hanajima: To truly love someone is to always put thier feelings before your own...No matter what.

Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.