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Selflessness

noun

The quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others. Synonym: altruism.

Acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity. Synonym: self-sacrifice.

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"Selflessness" Quotes from Famous Books

... for one or the other to ignore self. Aubrey is the epitome of selflessness. So that I claim no credit for the noiseless wheels of our domestic machinery, for over trifles I am inclined to go up in a puff of vapour and blue smoke, and ...

— At Home with the Jardines • Lilian Bell

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... brave who think thus are the furthest removed from the morality which sees precisely in sympathy, or in acting for the good of others, or in DESINTERESSEMENT, the characteristic of the moral; faith in oneself, pride in oneself, a radical enmity and irony towards "selflessness," belong as definitely to noble morality, as do a careless scorn and precaution in presence of sympathy and the "warm heart."—It is the powerful who KNOW how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention. The profound reverence for age and for tradition—all law rests on this ...

— Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Nietzsche

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Words linked to "Selflessness" : denial, egoism, abnegation, altruism, cooperation, self-renunciation, self-abnegation, selfless, self-sacrifice, self-denial, unselfishness