Quotes About Selflessness

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

I try to pride myself on being nice to everyone and not letting egos get in the way.

Oh Lord... I don't really do pride.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life.

It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board for that, even if you want to go another inning.

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.

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

When you become a pa, you have different priorities now, and you're not living for yourself; you're living for someone else now.

For me, in the past, scoring has not always been the most important thing. My priorities have been to play well, to be important for the team. After that, I've always told myself that if I score, then that's just okay.

Vanity is not high on my list of priorities.

Make intercessory prayer a priority in your life and the life of your family. It will cause you to be more empathetic, less self-obsessed, and increasingly more like Christ.

Being mum is a number one job. That takes priority.

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.

My interest only is trying to help the lives of the people of this state, try to educate people and create jobs. It's not even for me. I've never gained anything. I don't even take a salary. I've never gained anything from being here except for the joy and the privilege of serving the people of this state.

I've always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn't use it anymore.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it's not about me.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

I can't go out there and be gassed and trying to go out there and make a play just for individual stats. Got to do the best thing for the team, which is to put myself out there when it's most productive for us.

Putting the need of your team above personal self-interest is a difficult thing to do.

I might be the only one who's never taken a dime from my son.

When it's time to play, I'm going to come play. I'm going to play the right way. I'm going to try to help my team in all directions, blocking and catching. If I don't have the ball in my hand, I'm going to protect, block down the field. I'm going to do whatever it takes to win.