Browse 734 quotes about Selfless.
“Creatures with light eternal, don't shine to stir public opinion.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“Apes loot and call it victory,
Humans sacrifice and call it life.
While ants hoard all for themselves,
Giants find meaning in giving light.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“Shehit Shair Society, Sonnet
(Martyr Poets Society)
Poet* is martyred so poetry can live,
Monk is martyred so holiness can live.
Reformer is martyred so society can live,
Dervish is martyred so the cosmos can live.
Sufi is martyred so serenity can breathe,
Scientist is martyred so reason finds light.
Philosopher is martyred so curiosity lives,
Saint is martyred to keep the promise alive.
The just are martyred so injustice ends -
they diss us woke, we couldn't care less.
*Shairs and seers, we are sad figures -
It's from our wounds, the world draws courage.
Walk your wounds, surf your suffering.
Amidst self-lovers, martyr is the king.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“The only devil I dread is myself - no saint am I, just human in help!”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Every human who loves a human is apostle,
Every human who helps a human is king.
Animals may feast on selfish luxury,
As for me, I am a citizen king.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Breath sacrificed is first breath of life.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“One day my memories will fade, but the world's memory of me will never fade - that's how I've lived my life.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Burn my books, and go lift the world!”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Be the paradigm-breaking anomaly,
That elevates all of humankind.
Be the epoch-shattering anchor,
That tethers time to light.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Struggle in the streets,
struggle in the beaches,
only then you shall know,
what suits the humans,
what suits the leeches.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Your purpose is the expenditure of self, not the preservation of it.”
“No purpose ends with you.”
“Naskar has never sought for recognition, neither should Naskareans. Work my soldiers, work - work for the welfare of this world with the last ounce of valiance in your veins. Only then shall you stand bold and proud, with a smile on your face, as a testament to my life. I don't want to live in my words - I want to live through you - I want you to be the proof that there ever was a human called Naskar. I exist, when you exist - as the absolute epitome of humanness possible - when you don't, I don't.
I don't want your allegiance - to me or anybody else! Allegiance is too petty a term to define what I want of you - for I don't want your allegiance - I want your annihilation - your absolute apocalyptic annihilation - for the ascension of humanity! Can you do that? Then what are you waiting for! Burn my books, and go lift the world! Let me live in your blood, not in books.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Burn my books, and go lift the world! Let me live in your blood, not in books.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“In those early days,
I gave you a motto -
My world, my responsibility.
I say to you further today,
Burn my books to cinders,
and go light up humanity.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“They ask me,
why do you speak for so many cultures,
when you are not born in those cultures?
So I asked the sun,
why do you share your light with earth,
when you are not born of earth?
The sun told me,
o ye of little mind, don't you know,
light is not mine to give!
Light is the intrinsic right of life,
I am merely accessory to the motive.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“I am only the first fire, the best are yet to come!”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Our mission is to be the resource that helps achieve the mission. However, if we make ourselves the mission, we will be neither mission nor resource.”
“Abundance is the perpetual act of being empty.”
“What litters the forest floor each autumn is the story of a hundred million sacrifices, for without the death of the leaves there would be no forest to sacrifice for. And without something to sacrifice for, there is nothing to live for.”
“Average people measure themselves by the amount of pleasure they can buy for themselves, reformers measure themselves by the amount of pain they can bear for others.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“There is no existence except in service. There is no rest except in sacrificial restlessness.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“I have been mocked and ridiculed my whole life, but know this, those who mock me today, their children will thank me tomorrow.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“No Rest (The Sonnet)
There is no rest,
Till the last drop of tear is wiped out.
There is no leisure,
Till the voiceless can speak aloud.
There is no relaxing,
Till the last empty stomach is fed.
There is no sleep,
Till all droopy spines are made straight.
There is no joy,
Till the last grey life is colored.
There is no comfort,
Till the last anxious soul is empowered.
The struggle isn't over till the fallen rise.
Security later, first let us be civilized.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Struggle my friend - struggle till the last breath in your body - for only when a handful of lionhearts struggle through their whole life for the betterment of others, can the children of tomorrow live in a civilized dawn.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Be a supernova of selflessness, not a casanova of cockiness.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Immortality comes chasing those who can walk bravely in sheer darkness while burning themselves, to light the way for others.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Unselfishness is the only love there is. In my teenage years I fell in love with humankind. Ever since then I've been an insane drunkard. I am so drunk with love for the people of earth that all the alcohol in the world holds no appeal for me.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“I am love, I am sanity, I am sacrifice, I am immortality.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“This is the gist of my life - I was born an animal, I burnt myself for humanity, I became human.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“When everyone is trying to achieve something for themselves, give up everything you've achieved for the love of others.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Sonnet of Identity
Tell me O Mississippi,
What is my name?
For I lost my sense of self,
In line of service without gain.
Dear mountains of Blue Ridge,
Where did I come from?
I fathom not the worldly titles,
I deny narrowness as the norm.
Character makes the person,
Not pedigree and tradition.
If I can lift even five lives,
That’ll be my highest salvation.
So forget that I asked about my identity.
Service is my culture and my nationality.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“I was a good for nothing vagabond roaming the streets of Calcutta. If I have done so much with no resources to speak of, how much will you do! Wake up my friend, the ailing world awaits.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“God ain't up there but here in you and me. Awake, Arise O Mighty Gods to die for the unfree.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Selflessness and sanity,
Let these flow through your veins.
Offer up your nerves and bones,
As the world’s unity lanes.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Without sacrifice there is no civilization.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“I have nothing to give my friend, so I give you my life to amplify your might”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Light doesn't say 'o look at me, I am so bright' - all it does is shine.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“Unless a bunch of lionhearts are sleepless for society, the society can never sleep in peace.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“It is a promise that I ask of you - a promise that no matter the time and age you'll never lose sight of your humanity - you'll never be too immersed in your own comfort to help out those in misery around you. If you can make this promise, not to me mark you but to yourself, then I'll know that I've achieved absolution.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“In a civilized society there is nothing great about getting laid, animals do that all the time, but laying down oneself for the benefit of others, that's greatness - and more importantly, that's humanity.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Survival of the fittest is law of the jungle, sacrifice for the helpless is law of the human society.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“Let’s sail boldly into the storms of annihilation, breathing light into dark by sheer determination.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“Once I die for the people’s future, then I can live in peace forever.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“I burnt my youth, so that you could have a torch. Take this torch and ignite yourself - burn my soldier of ascension - burn - the more your burn, the more human this world will become.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“There is no death for those who die for the people, there's only immortality.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“I burnt my youth, so that you could have a torch. Take this torch and ignite yourself - burn my soldier of ascension, burn - the more you burn, the more human this world will become.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“There are two selves in us all - one self is amateur, foolish and selfish - that self says, 'I am all, my word is supreme, my belief is the highest, my opinions are the best' - then there is another self, which is wise, caring and conscientious - it says, 'I am nothing, I am the servant of people, my interest is in benefiting others, my life is their keepsake'.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“More than money, fame and romance, I crave for society.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“You are the fire incarnate - keep burning - keep burning - keep burning for the people - keep burning for the community - keep burning for the society - keep burning for humanity.”
Source: Revolution Indomable