Quotes About Selflessness

She lived in a world which she could make perfect for those she loved and in which her own comfort and happiness mattered not at all.

She had given him all she had to give. She would not feel guilty for that.

hope you know how much he appreciates your care," Alex told the Earps. "For I was sick, and you came to me," Wyatt said. "Nah," Morgan said. "It was selfishness." Wyatt and Alex were both surprised, but Morgan just shrugged. "Doc doesn't have any brothers," he told Alex. "So we took him for our own.

Maybe, she thought, this experience would be good. It would probably be improving to focus on the problems of others for a change.

Take it," he said. "Are you sure?" Jack asked. He knew it was Brother Michael's life's work. "Please," said Brother Michael. "It is better that the world should have some of it than none at all. Just in case…

My body is not my own.

Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life. ___________

learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

The hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.

To bestow on your fellow men is a Godlike attribute--So indeed it is and as such not one fit for mortality;--the giver, like Adam and Prometheus, must pay the penalty of rising above his nature by being the martyr of his own excellence.

Some three years after the end of the war my father died. He died as he had lived, quietly and with more thought for others than for himself.

I had resolved in my own mind, that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness; and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.

I just want to protect them no matter how much pain befalls me.

I'm just being selfish..... I'm here on my own free will... I used to always cry and give up... I nearly went the wrong way... But you... You showed me the right way... I was always chasing you... Wanting to overtake you... I just wanted to walk with you... I wanted to be with you... You changed me! Your smile saved me! So I'm not afraid to die protecting you!!! Because I-- Love You...

almost all biologists agreed that no creature could ever evolve the ability to help its species at the expense of itself. Only when the two interests coincided would it act selflessly.

we all enjoy making other people happy. How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, but the pleasure of seeing it.

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

I don't save the world for glory or power. I have neither and I don't care for them. In fact, I quite like it that the world doesn't know my name. I just do what I do for the people I love.

As long as a sense of self-importance rules your being, you will never know lasting peace.

Being altruistic not only helps us to benefit others, but it is also the most satisfying way to live.

He was always so happy, and she was sometimes depressed, although not so often as she used to be. And he was so completely unselfconscious, so untroubled by perplexities and doubts of the sort which had always beset her. But they beset her less and less. He was always confident, without being at all vain, and he was building that same confidence in her.

She reached over and squeezed him by the arm. "You did this for me," she said. "Yeah, I did this for you, but don't make it a thing.

Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you. For the Council of Vocations knows in its great wisdom where you are needed by your brother men, better than you can know it in your unworthy little minds. And if you are not needed by your brother men, there is no reason for you to burden the earth with your bodies.

if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.