Quotes About Selflessness

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

I always like to assist more than scoring: it gives me another feeling; I cannot explain it.

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

I'm not really big on gifts. I like giving back on my birthday.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

If we constantly give God the glory, then we don't have any glory to keep for ourselves.

I think all the Australians have that. They're willing to give up a bit of their own glory for the better of the group.

I've had to change my game a lot - try to play the right way, try to do the right things, try to be the glue guy for the team for the most part.

I like assisting goals more than scoring them.

When somebody's telling you you're godly and you saved their life, and this and that and the other, I'm going, 'Well, who's saving mine?'

If you do a good deed, don't expect anything back - the other person can still be a complete git.

Like most fathers, I would do anything for my children, and I've worked very hard at trying to be a good father. I want to give them education, security, everything I never had.

Over everything, over friendships or anything, is my kids - and obviously fighting for that belt is my kids' future. It doesn't sound too nice, but if my mom had the belt, she better give it up because my kids gotta eat. If I'm willing to fight my mom, imagine a good friend.

How often do we make films just celebrating people that do a good job, work altruistically, and are in it just for the sake of the love and not the business?

Life isn't all me. I have a family to support. I can't rob them of a good life simply because I want to play something.

I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

I like to think of myself as a genuinely good person.

Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.

To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

You shall love beyond yourselves some day! So first, learn to love. And for that you have to drink the bitter cup of your love.

Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his going under.