Quotes About Selflessness

My team-mates appreciate that I do the dirty work and I know it is necessary.

I think players maybe now want to look more pretty than anything else. What I feel disappointed about when I watch games is too many players think of themselves. Still good players, maybe better than we were, but looking too much at themselves.

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

I don't think I'd like to be that guy who does disrupt training. I always feel the team comes first, and that's the way it is, and me being a disruptive influence, because I'm not playing, doesn't help the team.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

If you really love someone, you can't be angry if they don't love you the same way. You got to just love them because you love them, not because you're expecting anything back in return.

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

I tend to end relationships, so she can find somebody better than me. Because I want to be fair to people. I cannot devote enough energy and time and devotion to her. I think that is fair, no?

I do not want fame.

I'm a player that usually focus on my team, try to give the best for my team-mates, and I don't look much at what the other teams do.

Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.

It's not the great stars that win; it's the great teams that win. It's the teams that subjugate their ego to the team and put the team first.

I've been able to contribute to a lot of winning teams in my lifetime. It just comes from my mindset. I've not focused on me individually; it's what the team needs.

Different strikers are happy when they score but you have to think about the team - the assist and movements which can give space for your team mates. You can never quit. It's teamwork.

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

Ask me for my shirt off my back, I'll give it to you. Tell me? Not a chance.

At the heart of my family is a woman who has spent 60 years taking care of others. Nurse Grandma, as we affectionately call her - my mum Sue - is who everyone in our family calls when there's a cough that won't go, or a temperature that needs bringing down.

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.

Krulak knew he would pay a price, and he still did the right thing. At a time when he had everything to lose, he was the only general in the American military whose sense of duty and love of country were greater than his careerism.

Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday you will be a real boy.' The Blue Fairy said that. In Pinocchio.

Because, as compassionate people, we have been evaluating our charity by the rewards we receive through service, rather than the benefits received by the served.

you got to give it away to keep it

You know the definition of a hero?" I figured I could make up one on the fly. "Someone who acts without considering his own safety?" "Someone too stupid not to consider his own safety and gets himself and other people killed