Quotes About Selflessness

I don't want to be a burden on anybody.

Everyone has issues, and I'm not someone who likes to burden people.

I'm the guy that's always defusing everything and taking the burden off a lot of people and letting everything fall onto me. Obviously, I'm built to handle it, and I don't mind doing it.

You should never bury someone to forward your own personal interest. And I would never do that to anyone else on the planet.

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

Among the hardest-working players I've ever been associated, Yao stands at the very top of the list. Beyond that, though, here's what truly separated him from everyone else: His ability to enjoy other people's successes.

Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

I think I'm an extremely good mother. I know I'm an extremely good mother. But I didn't realise how much it sucks out of you.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.

The idea of giving your talent for free in order to save lives seemed like the most sensible thing anyone's ever suggested.

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Jesus comes among us, in our all division, not to instruct, comfort or inspire but to die. In doing so, He answers the sum of our self-regard, stupidity and cruelty.

The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.

You can't have an ego in the bullpen. At the end of the day, we're a group. We're only as good as the sum of our parts. Whatever you're called on to do that day, you've got to be willing to do it for the boys.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.

Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.

Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

A great man is always willing to be little.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.