Quotes About Selflessness

Measure yourself and your success by what you give to others, not what you receive in return.

The way myself and my brothers have been brought up is that you don't give to receive, you give to give, and that is the way life is.

To give is one of the greatest gifts one could ever receive.

As much time and effort, emotion, anger, love, joy that you put into another human being, you're not guaranteed to receive that back. And that's OK. That's alright.

My dad taught me to be professional, to treat others the way you want to be treated, to be selfless, to give more than you receive and to always give your best effort.

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

Parenting is love, sure, but it's as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity.

I was pretty much nonexistent on the Internet before NASA, and that was really because I've been inspired by amazing sacrifices of people who did amazing things - jumping on grenades or sacrificing their lives or doing the most crazy, brave things without hesitation and never, ever seeking recognition for it. That was always very powerful for me.

What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.

I don't play for recognition.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

I've never been a red carpet hugger unless it is for charity.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Our better angels get clouded and we're more selfish than we should be, more anxious or neurotic or desperate or self-sabotaging. Crueler, even. But I do think there's hope for everyone... I think redemption is possible for anybody.

I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.

When everybody is sharing the ball, everybody makes everybody happy.

A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

I would never do anything that would harm me, and I am totally against using any kind of resource, illicitly, to benefit myself in any way.

I've always said my shoulders are broad, and I can take on that extra responsibility. I love it. I want it. I prefer to take it on myself to help the other guys, who can then go out and play with their heads clear and calm.

You can't focus on yourself. You need to focus on what you're doing for others, and then you can start to heal.