Quotes About Selflessness

In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. "Deserves" is not the point. And "owes" is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is, that in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.

It wasn't just the awe of celebrity that moved you; celebrity usually exudes entitlement more than it does peace.

You love him, man," was what Jensen did say. "You love him so much, you're making plans to go to hell for him.

He thought about how sometimes people's greatest sacrifices were the ones they didn't want the world to acknowledge or even to know about. Maybe that's what made them great.

I'd die for him!" And he would. Say the word, there's Tate Walker, lying down in traffic and throwing his worthless life away so someone as good as Brian could cross the street.

He wants to keep me happy and he wants to keep me fed, he makes sure that I've got blankets and a place to sleep in a bed, but the music in my heart is like a freight train. It goes and it goes and when I stop it, it's like pain, but my brother doesn't see it doesn't hear it doesn't feel it, and all there is to do is shove him out of the way. Don't want to hit my brother with the freight train.

And now Michael would go to prison all over again—he'd do it twice—to help that kid cross the damned street.

Maybe love was love when your best friend changed everything that was wrong in his life so he could be the person you needed most.

This world. This human race. It isn't divided into sexes. Everybody thinks it's divided into sexes but it isn't. It's the givers and the takers. The diners and the dinners.

For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.

It's possible these men were afraid. . . . And so the first question that the priest [and] the Levite asked was, 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' . . . But then the Good Samaritan came by, and he reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

Dios da tanto como podemos tomar de él, y la medida de su ofrecimiento depende de la medida en que «nosotros mismos» nos hayamos abandonado.

Só dá verdadeiramente quem dá o próprio trabalho, a própria alma, o próprio gênio. E a excelsa oferenda de si mesmo a toda a humanidade tanto enriquece o doador quanto a comunidade.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine were taken away.

Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Never let your ego get in the way of a good thing.

what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.

So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.

My mum's amazing. She's the person I admire most, I think, in her sacrifice to me and my sister and her level of emotional sacrifice to people around her. She takes a high level of personal responsibility for the welfare of people around her.

I devoted myself to the task of welfare of my countrymen - not as a ruler but as a servant.

Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

You see people with a room full of their career achievements. Brilliant. Well done. That's just not something I do. They're in a bin bag in my mum and dad's loft.