Quotes About Selflessness

You don't get to choose the value of what you do in others' eyes, so you have to take stock in knowing that doing the right thing is enough, no matter who notices.

He'd learned that when you love someone purely enough, all you wanted was for that person to be happy. (p. 419)

The charitable acts that count the most, Greer believes, are those done without anyone knowing.

He believes that if you agree to do something you'd rather not do for someone else's sake, then you should do it graciously, with some enthusiasm, like a good sport.

The only happiness left her was in making some one else happy.

Saving myself would mean destroying him.

These tiny people, they're not about you. They are not for you. They do not belong to you. They are under your care, is all, and it's your job to work at being a decent human being, love them well and a lot, dont put your problems on them, dont make your problems thier problems, dont use them to occupy empty parts of yourself.

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

Why do we wait until tomorrow to do good? Why do we wait to be rich before giving? Is not the gift of ourselves better than money, and is there a day or even an hour in which we could not give a tear or a smile to someone who is suffering?

I do," Olaf says. "Love is putting someone else's needs before yours, like, you know, how Kristoff brought you back here to Hans and left you forever.

Some people are worth melting for," he says.

You sacrificed yourself for me?" "I love you," I say weakly.

If I have all the faith so as to move mountains,but do not have love,then I an nothing.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing more than to stand shoulder to shoulder with my men. I am nothing without them.

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.

Live simply that others might simply live.

It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth— 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book And calculating profits - so much help By so much rending. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth - 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

with not an instant out of the four-and-twenty hours to call my own. It appeared, at the last, that Wilson would have a drawback to her enjoyments in having the child, and I did not choose that: she had only a fortnight, you see, after five years, to be with her family. So I took her place with him; it was necessary, for he was in a state of deplorable grief when he missed her, and has refused ever since to allow any human being except me to do a single thing for him.

Miss Barrett, for her part, shrank from burdening the life of the man she loved with a responsibility so trying and perhaps so painful, and refused his unchanging devotion for his sake, not for her own.

My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you.

Friends don't keep score." Because friends don't have to keep score, my da would of said. Friends just pitch in as needed, as they can.

All for Queen and country, and not even honor for themselves.