Quotes About Selflessness

I'll let my castle go, and stay with the dear old gentleman while he needs me, for I am all he has.

But I don't think the little we should spend would do any good. We've each got a dollar, and the army wouldn't be much helped by our giving that. I agree not to expect anything from Mother or you, but I do want to buy Undine and Sintram for myself. I've wanted it so long," said Jo, who was a bookworm

mother's Diana-like

It was as if her own conscience had taken human shape, for his voice eloquently uttered the fears, the feelings that had filled her heart that night. She had wavered, for love was sweet and life looked desolate without it; but the example of this man who asked nothing for himself and was as true to his own soul as he would have her to hers, touched and inspired her with a brave desire to be worthy his respect, to emulate his virtue.

Il migliore e il più caro tra gli angeli di Natale si chiama carità. [...]. Va in giro il giorno di Natale compiendo buone azioni come questa e non rimane mai per ricevere ringraziamenti.

En el mundo hay muchísimas Beth, tímidas y tranquilas, sentadas en rincones hasta que alguien las necesita, y que viven para los demás tan alegremente, que nadie se da cuenta de los sacrificios que hacen hasta que el grillo del hogar cesa de chirriar y desaparece el dulce rayo de sol, dejado atrás silencio y sombra.

Rose: A real sacrifice is giving up something you want or enjoy very much, isn't it? Alec: Yes. Rose: Doing it one's own self because one loves another person very much and wants her to be happy? Alec: Yes. Rose: And doing it pleasantly, and being glad about it, and not minding the praise if it doesn't come? Alec: Yes dear, that is the true spirit of self-sacrifice...

Había aprendido no solamente la amargura del remordimiento y de la desesperación, sino también la dulzura de la abnegación y del dominio de sí misma.

She needed no reward but the joy she had given.

Polly tried to conquer the bad feeling; but it worried her, till she remembered something her mother once said to her: When you feel out of sorts, try to make someone else happy, and you will soon be so yourself.

Where have you been, and what are you hiding behind you?" asked Meg, surprised to see, by her hood and cloak, that lazy Amy had been out so early. "Don't laugh at me, Jo; I didn't mean anyone should know till the time came. I only meant to change the little bottle for a big one, and I gave all my money to get it, and I'm truly trying not to be selfish anymore.

We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly.

He did not boast. I have never heard him boast.

He avoided a gaudy residence and had no desire to impress other people.

To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.

My experience has been that altruism is invariably a means to conceal one's personal failures.

You cut up your feet pretty good, but nothing deep enough to need stitches. That was almost a mile walk and you sick as him, and barefoot to boot. I don't know how you did it. You must love that child dear as life." "I tried not to," Rachel said. "I just couldn't find a way to stop myself.

Great things can be accomplished, when it doesnt matter who gets the credit.

there is no limit to the amount of good that you can do so long as you do not care who gets the credit.

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Amar es dar lo que no se tiene a quien no es».

She cared for everybody, and yet for no person's opinion.

I am more likely to give help than to ask it—Bagheera stretched out one paw and admired the steel-blue, ripping-chisel talons at the end of it—still I should like to know.

Rudyard Kipling