Quotes About Selflessness

My father is someone I've always looked up to as the ultimate example of chivalry and humility, and someone who's just deeply kind and empathetic and selfless.

Humility is my forte.

Humility is important.

Generally speaking, ego isn't a good thing. Humility is the most important quality in a human being.

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

My mum would have gone hungry before I would go hungry.

We can in fact remove from our hearts the toxic forces of greed, hate, and delusion.

A loving heart does not need to be loved. Being loving is more important than being loved.

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness. So Dickens's wife and mistress had to suffer so that dickens could make his novels and his fortune. At least a bank manager's money is not so tainted by egotism. Mine was not a destructive profession. A bank manager doesn't leave a trail of the martyred behind him.

Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

I think of heroes as ordinary people who decide to give a damn about what they do, not what they might get.

The funny thing I learned about giving is that sometimes the more you give, the more recipients demand.

Kindness can be a weakness, Grace. Please listen to me. Don't get me wrong. I don't want you to be harsh, uncaring. Not at all. I don't want you to be indifferent to the needs of others. I just don't want you to put anyone else above yourself.

This is what the kingdom of God looks like. It looks like humility. It looks like grace. It looks like service. It looks like Jesus.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.

love's a one-way street. Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.

I didn't know then, as I do now, that love's a one-way street. Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.

I didn't know then, as I do now, that love's a one-way street. Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.

It is by making a sincere gift of ourselves that we discover the nature of our goodness.

I was in the Navy when the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked and Flight 93 went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. I remember the selflessness of our first responders, including brave New Jerseyans, who were there when our country needed them most.

My grandmother, Dorothy Walker Bush, worked long, hard hours for the Red Cross during World War II because it was the right thing to do for her community. The example of his parents established my father's belief that every human has the capacity to serve their fellow man.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.