Quotes About Selflessness

If I'm the best in the world and if I have the best jab in the world, why not risk a little bit of that for someone who needs it?

If they focus on me too often, somebody's going to be wide open. It's all about playing together and playing as a team.

I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.

I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

I'm less self-consumed, less narcissistic, I'm more selfless, more considerate. I've just grown up. It's a slow growth, because I was in a band for ten years. I was given the card to be able to live an adolescent life forever. You're celebrated, the more of a child you are.

I forget about myself and tend to concentrate too much on others.

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

I want everybody to succeed. It's just part of who I am. I probably do that with my kids tenfold. I'm as insecure as the next person, but it doesn't ever take me over.

The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

Here's to all volunteers, those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay.

Heather: In any case, it really is very kind of you to give up so much time for the children. I'm quite sure you have a thousand more important things to attend to. Sergeant Kynper: If not for them, then who the hell is it all for?

when we shift our eyes from our own problems to God's kingdom and caring for others, He will take care of the rest.

When we find the entry into this large stillness, our lives are irrevocably changed because at that moment a monumental transition takes place: we find that the center of the universe shifts from our self-interests, even our spiritual self-interests, to the larger world, even to the cosmos, which we now begin to perceive as a spiritual reality.

Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.

Only in service to others, or God, could one be truly happy, unless that service was undertaken with a desire for status, power or wealth, and then the void would swallow you whole.

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

When children are taught that personal wants and desires are selfish, there is a resultant guilt reaction and movement toward a state of selflessness. However, our wants and desires make up a major part of our identity. When they are suppressed, we don't know who we are, and without a sense of self, we lose compassion for others (Firestone, 1987b, 1997a).

Traditional religion's dogma of selflessness is essentially an externalization of the individual's voice and therefore has a powerful negative influence on behavior. The haranguing voice of the fundamentalist minister castigating sinners and urging them to seek redemption directly resembles the self-critical "voices" of the members of his congregation.

People who are self-denying and selfless have little to offer to others.