Quotes About Selflessness

I don't think about scoring more goals than a team-mate, only to score.

Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.

If we can win games, it doesn't matter who is scoring.

If the team is scoring, and I'm on the court, that's as good as me scoring.

Benzema is a team player, he is very important for us. He always wants to score with us, but scoring is not everything to him.

I don't worry too much about scoring. I worry about the assists.

I never had any hang-ups about playing a secondary role.

The brave men and women who have served - and those who continue to serve - our armed forces have selflessly sacrificed for our nation, and we owe it to them to provide the best services and protections available when they're overseas and after they return home.

We really owe it to the military for what they do day in and day out that we never even hear about.

I don't see that anyone owes me anything for my service. I don't feel any sense of entitlement.

Whether I'm in a ball gown or a pair of jeans, it's not about me or what I'm wearing; it's about what I can be doing to support and empower others going forward.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

As an athlete, you really see a lot of the Instagram paradigm. Where it's just like, 'Me! Me! Me!' When you realize you can 'Give, Give, Give,' it's very interesting, and it's good.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

Parenthood helps you be less selfish, because you don't care about anything as much as you do them.

I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That's what parenting is: You're not there for yourself; you're there for your offspring and everyone else around you.

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

Kobe's been criticized unfairly. He's in a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' situation. If he passes too much, they say he's not shooting. If he shoots, he's called selfish.