Quotes About Selflessness

But they also were on some base level congenitally brave. There was a selflessness within them, a purity of action.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

If it's a shot for me, if I can make a play, create for someone else, I'll do that. A lot of times you run a play, everybody's watching, everybody's locked in, everybody's pulling over, and it just makes the game tougher for me.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

We humans have a powerful instinct to flee from peril. It takes a special kind of courage, a deep sense of duty, and extraordinary character to overcome these impulses and - for the sake of others - to run toward the danger.

Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a hypothetical 'Other'.

I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

Ego is probably one of the biggest poisons we can have - it's toxic to any environment.

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.

I have never played cricket for selfish reasons like scoring 800-900 runs on flat tracks to make a comeback.

Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.

Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.