Quotes About Selflessness

Every sacrifice I make is for the good of my Clan—and for the other Clans around the lake. Even if that means sacrificing myself.

Dovepaw made a mess of the hunting, true. But she ran to help a Clanmate in trouble when she had no idea what danger she would have to face on the other side of that bramble thicket. And when we couldn't get Icecloud out of the hole, she was quick to volunteer to be lowered down to help her, even though no cat really knew what might have been down there.

I've unsheathed my claws too many times. I want to save lives, not destroy them.

Clear Sky rolled his eyes as he swallowed the prey. "Why must you always be so unselfish?

I would give my last drop of blood to save your kit," Leafpool meowed softly to Crowfeather. "You know that.

Hollyleaf leaped forward at the final moment, taking Hawkfrost's death blow and saving Ivypool's life.

Why bother?" Jaypaw asked. "It's not your assessment today." "I know," Lionpaw mumbled around a mouthful of fresh-kill. "But that's not the point. A good warrior will always do as much as he can to feed the Clan.

With this life I give you compassion," she announced. "Use it well for the elders of your Clan, and the sick, and all those weaker than yourself.

The manly man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself.

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles.

I've been a good mother," she said. It was a plea rather than an affirmation.

To love someone is to grant him or her the gift of one's pure and undivided attention, without preconceived expectations of what the other person needs, what we imagine to be best in the situation, what particular results we want to engineer.

Mothers seem to have an infinite capacity to withstand hurt from their children. All they see is their pain and I think they feel responsible for it, as if it is their fault that the child in question is feeling so bad and acting so selfishly -- and thus the very least they can do is take it.

God, the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life was giving up what he wanted so that the woman he loved could get what she needed.

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

A person's quality is inversely proportional to the quantity of explanation he demands before agreeing to help a friend in need.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

Christ did not exalt himself in a world full of self-promotion; rather he stepped down and served others, which most, especially the elite, in the Greco-Roman world would have seen as despicable, not admirable.

To allow a human being to drown because you are busy telling God how much you care about Him and His world is the ultimate hypocrisy.

When you are good to others you are best to yourself.

queria agradar a todos e, tendo muito pouco a oferecer, oferecia expectativas

O that all may take heed and beware of covetousness! O that all may learn of Christ, who was meek and lowly of heart. Then in faithfully following him he will teach us to be content with food and raiment without respect to the customs or honors of this world. Men thus redeemed will feel a tender concern for their fellow-creatures, and a desire that those in the lowest stations may be assisted and encouraged,