Quotes About Selflessness

Mother's Day for me is day that needs to be celebrated every day.

I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity or anybody, you know. I just think of myself as doing something that I love to do.

I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.

I just try not to be at the centre of everything.

I really don't care about coming from the bench if that helps the team to win a championship.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take as much.

I don't have an ego. I check it at the door.

Christian life means sacrifice.

Firefighters and rescue workers are American superheroes.

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

I've always had a good relationship with superstar players. I don't really demand the ball a lot.

I am not a superstar, nor do I want to be remembered as one. I have always been a team player.

I'm not some person who wants to be treated as a superstar and won't go out and help the team.

The words used to describe the heroes of D-Day are not the current lexicon we tend to use for success. Humble, selfless, brave. Those are not words we attach in 2019 to superstars.

Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia - I feed and clothe them - but I don't hold press conferences about it. I don't do it so you'll think what a nice person I am; it's private.

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

Basketball is like life and life is like basketball. It's just a game. So lets play the best we can while we are still here with love, compassion, selflessness fairplay and supporting each other to be bigger and better human beings.

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

I don't want to surpass anyone. I don't want to be better than anyone else.

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

To surrender your ego, you have to have one first.

Then don't assume you need to be the one to make the sacrifice. Don't hold your own needs as less important than other people's.