Quotes About Selflessness

I left... to save you, Nynaeve whispered. I only came along to protect you.

A pure mathematician must leave to happier colleagues the great task of alleviating the sufferings of humanity.

Eres un buen chico. No dejes que nadie te quite eso... Nunca pienses lo contrario. Te preocupas por los demás. Eso es fácil de perder... Preocuparse por las personas. Nos enfocamos tanto en lo que necesitamos... Que dejamos de preocuparnos por las demás personas. Tal vez es lo que debemos hacer para sobrevivir... Pero te quita un pedazo del alma... Cada vez.

grew increasingly impatient and angry as I compared their selflessness and sacrifice with the self-promotion and selfishness of power-hungry politicians and others—in Baghdad, Kabul, and Washington.

call the game the "Wall Street Game," and people become less cooperative. Calling it the "Community Game" does the opposite. Similarly

Unser Leben] ist unüberwindlich verworren nur dann, wen man an sich denkt; aber in dem Augenblick, wo man nicht an sich denkt, sondern sich fragt, wie man einem anderen helfen könne, ist es sehr einfach.

I half imagined a God who would look on such creatures and pity them and love them and try very hard to show Himself in those moments when the two people, whoever they were, were letting go of their own selfishness and fear and faithlessness and trying to find a way to cling hard and long and permanently to each other. And if they failed at that, God would see just the yearning for it as worthy of a gift of all the grace a God could give.

Don't let pride get in your way. Pride is a luxury that sometimes you can't afford.

Whenever you feel short or in need of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, or friendship.

Whenever you feel short or in need of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets.

They make it a habit of never volunteering.

Our sacrifice is greater than his, cried Rilla passionately. Our boys give only themselves. We give them.

she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

The trouble with you, Anne, is that you're thinking too much about yourself. You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable to her, said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice. Anne instantly realized this.

Can I help you? said Jane. Though Jane herself had no inkling of it, those words were the keynote of her character. Any one else would probably have said, What is the matter? But Jane always wanted to help: and, though she was too young to realize it, the tragedy of her little existence was that nobody ever wanted her help.

Mr. Leonard thought rightly that the highest work to which any man could be called was a life of service to his fellows; but he made the mistake of supposing the field of service much narrower than it is—of failing to see that a man may minister to the needs of humanity in many different but equally effective ways.

Give us a chew, said Mary companionably. Nan, Di and Faith all produced an amber-hued knot or two from their pockets and passed them to Mary. Una sat very still. She had four lovely big knots in the pocket of her tight, thread-bare little jacket, but she wasn't going to give one of them to Mary Vance—not one Let Mary pick her own gum! People with squirrel muffs needn't expect to get everyt

There are things far more valuable than private comfort or public admiration.

Debo renunciar a mi fascinación por mí mismo ante el beneficio de una preocupación más compatible con la naturaleza del objetivo de Dios. No estoy yo en el centro. Sino Dios. Existo por él y no existe él por mí.

It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to," Clara said. "It's just a waste.

Sometimes not giving is the gift. —KATE FAL

I kind of think you could probably say the same thing about people. At the end of the day, one thing defines them." "What defines you?" I said. "What defines you?" he said. I smiled. "I asked you first." He smiled back at me. He smiled, that smile. "Okay, fine," he said. Then he didn't hesitate, not for a second. "There is nothing I wouldn't do for my daughter.

More than honor, more than life, I love thee. What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee, I said. more than any power in faerie, I love thee.

Don't make light of one of your better qualities. You love your people like a mother is supposed to love her children. You want what's best for them, even if that makes you uncomfortable, even if you don't like their choices.