Quotes About Selflessness

The witch raised one careful eyebrow. "I? I want nothing," she told Hazel. "Don't you see? I want nothing.

After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, donating blood.

In the end, one can only die for Sibylle. To love for her, my friends say, is degrading.

It is one thing to let go of the housekeeping. Quite another to relinquish being the center of your children's universe.

My mother felt that what she did was nothing special. If you find yourself in such a situation that's what you do. She never wanted attention; also not at family celebrations. But within the family, she was certainly not silent. She was calm and thoughtful. But she also had the most wonderful laugh.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Why me?" she asked, holding on to him. "Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen.

In his wolf-skin he was as strong as any of them, but he was a gentle person in many ways. He'd feel so bad about failing he'd probably step aside for someone else without a fight.

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

Devotion is a spiritual act of egoless surrender. When the Self blinds the spirit too tightly, then devotion expands the blinding by lifting us beyond ourselves. We get the powerful lesson that the Self survives even without constant attention.

I don't make an effort to advance my own profile, everything revolves around the team.

I lose around a couple of crores every year on the school, but even if I was to make profit from it, I would never use it for myself. I'd plough every penny back into improving facilities for the school. Just as I do with the cricket academies I run around the country. These are not for making money; for that, I have other avenues.

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me.

I don't have a need to promote myself.

I'm not trying to promote myself. I'm just happy to go about my business.

I can talk openly about my support for the artists on Communion because I'm not promoting myself.

I don't do the media because of 'Woo-woo, Julia Butterfly,' as I call it. I'm not into promoting me. I'm into talking about why I've done what I've done, why I continue to do this work and why other people should care.

The NFL Legends Community is the epitome of service. This isn't about promoting you anymore. It's about promoting something bigger than you.

I'm not particularly into people giving me credit. It's not something I think about. It's not important to me. The only thing that's important is if I'm doing my job properly on the pitch for the team and for the manager.

Our private property must be sacrificed.

Had I wanted, I could have set up my own company, secured funding, and made money. That proposition, however, does not excite me, since it would be a very self-centric goal.