Quotes About Selflessness

All of us would like to have our children and their grandchildren grow up with at least the level of prosperity that we had. In the U.S., we seem to be very selfish because the older generation is not making the sacrifices.

Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun.

You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.

It's your turn to be the centre, to give others what was given to you for so long. You've got to give security to young people and peace to your husband, and a sort of charity to the old. You've got to let the people who work for you depend on you. You've got to cover up a few more troubles than you show, and be a little more patient than the average person, and do a little more instead of a little less than your share. The light and glitter of the world is in your hands.

Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

Its nothing,' said Horace quietly, 'but if you can think of any nicer way of a man killing himself than taking a risk for you, why that's the way I want to die.

Sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal.

He was his wife's man and not his own.

All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?

Todo o mal do mundo vem de nos importarmos uns com os outros,    Quer para fazer bem, quer para fazer mal.

The only intellectual attitude worthy of a superior creature is a feeling of calm, cool compassion for everything that is not himself.

These people are more bearable when they describe, since in describing they forget themselves.

More often, they insist that their advantage lies not in having more to give but rather in being able to give more of what they have. Past

I do not know You God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

Let's put it this way: if I were to direct a feature film, I would not be in it.

Any of us can sort of say we would do any number of things to feed our children.

People feel good serving others.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

Most people haven't figured out when you are of service to other people outside of just yourself, the doorway for opportunity and blessings come in a very very different way.

It's not all about the figures. It's about how you play for the team, how you help your colleagues, how you work defensively.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill.