Quotes About Selflessness

I never thought you could win when you've got five guys on the floor looking for the ball and no one out there doing the little things.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

If you're only focusing on yourself, then you're not going to help the team.

A lot of folks would say that if I had been a little more selfish with my bat, I would have had a much bigger average. But that doesn't worry me.

I will always do what's best for the football team.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

My understanding of my faith is that - through a Christian framework - part of what we are called to do is to lay down our own self-interests, after the model of divinity that comes into this world in the form of Christ and lays down his life. And in order to do that, you have to care about something or someone more than yourself.

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.

My mother lost her job, so I left school to work full-time to support her.

The martyr sacrifices herself entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for she makes the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

It is, in fact, asking for trouble if you are more altruist than the society that surrounds you

Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying…. She

Ben kendimi dualar?n buyruÄŸuna sokmam hiçbir zaman. Dualar insan için yap?lm??t?r, insan dualar için deÄŸil. syf:186

Dearest says that is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people.

is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people. That is just the way you are, isn't it?

To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was a singular experience.

So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment.

When you kept the weeds from your bare little garden, and when you dug for others and hid away ugliness and disorder, you planted a Blue Flower every day. You have planted more than all the rest, and your reward shall be the sweetest, for you planted without the seeds.

Being a good mother is being a hero. Right?

After all, she told herself, if Todd preferred Jessica—and that certainly was how it looked—she would not stand in the way. She'd do the decent thing. Die.

Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did mirrored her faith. It was as though every waking hour of the day she was devoted to pleasing her God by serving others. This God that she worshiped consumed her. It didn't ask for a brief visit to a temple, or a small votive offering of food or coin, or a few prayers every now and then. This God wanted all of her.

I believe we all serve someone in this life. For the first thirty-eight years of mine, I served myself. My conversion was not a highly emotional experience. It was a conscious, thought-out decision that changed my focus, my direction, my heart, my life.

No sean egoístas; no traten de impresionar a nadie. Sean humildes, es decir, considerando a los demás como mejores que ustedes. FILIPENSES 2:3

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself. PHILIPPIANS 2 : 3