Quotes About Selflessness

patience is simply a way of putting the other person first. Patience is an expression of submission. Your

Love fills the gaps. Love reduces the friction created by our limited insight, knowledge, and judgment-inhibiting experiences. There is much I don't know. There are things I'll never understand. But my ignorance does not impede my capacity to put others first.

The moment we step into a ring that requires someone to lose in order for us to win, we are no longer followers of Jesus.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

She had given herself to the world in her entirety and then found nothing was left

The heart's egoism sees itself suffering when it sees another suffering and so it learns sympathy, because it can put itself into another's place; then the heart comes a little way out of its egoism and tentatively encounters the world. But, before the prospect of its own suffering, the heart melts completely and retreats into egoism, again, to protect itself.

We cannot know what others will do, but we must be willing to lay down our lives for Christ just as He laid down His life for us.

Because love suffers long. Love is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not dishonor. Love does not seek its own way. Love is not easily angered. Love does not delight in evil. Love rejoices in truth. Love protects, trusts, hopes, and endures all things.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal.

Where I had once thought to say, Look at me, I must now turn the attention of others away from myself.

For that is how he saw me, she thought, and out of love for him that is how I tried to be.

Now I understand why you do not wish to marry. You have dedicated your life to others -- to your sick brother and your aged aunt and your little brother who will be dependent on you all his life. You have sacrificed your own life for them.

there is no virtue in doing something for someone else when it's something you also want to do. That's merely being helpful, but it's hardly commendable. The real virtue is in doing something you don't want to do, but doing it because someone else wants it.

I suppose if you love someone, you don´t stop them doing the things that make them happy.

You've got to give away what you love.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Life is short. Do whatever you can to help people - not for status, but because the 95-year-old you will be proud if you did help people and disappointed if you didn't.

If I can't score, I do whatever I can to support my teammates.

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

As a sub, you just want to help your team in whatever way you can.