Quotes About Selflessness

When you love another for who they are, whether they give you what you need or not, then you truly love them.

There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people—teachers, plumbers, the guy who runs the pub—drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that?

had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people—teachers, plumbers, the guy who runs the pub—drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that?

If this guy ever had an unselfish thought, as my mama would say, it would die of loneliness.

Think how much more rewarding it would be if we all came to work every day asking, "Who can we help today and how can we do it?" instead of "Who can I hurt and how much coverage can I get for it?

Think of how much more rewarding it would be if we all came to work every day asking, Who can we help today and how can we do it? instead of Who can I hurt and how much coverage can I get for it?

As we mature, however, we realize that in order to embrace everyone at the table, we must be willing to release the grip on our personal agenda and see what is best for the community.

the well-being of the other person is more important than the current comfort level in the relationship.

To love as God loves, in other words, you may have to part with whatever is most precious to you for the sake of someone else.

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.

My book is called, Shut Up And Stop Whining: How To Do Something With Your Life Besides Think About Yourself.

it's a tough thing having to step aside for a friend, when your heart's breaking and your nether parts are still tangled up in their base desires.

We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good. The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.

My partner and I are very serious about the hero profession.

Your (true) significance may remain forever obscure (a mystery) to you, but rest assured that you are fulfilling your purpose if you commit yourself to the highest advantage of others.

If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.

Do you want it always to cost me the blood of my humanity while you do not even shed a tear?

Noble deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Be comforted; it is not from yourself that you must expect it, but on the contrary you must expect it by expecting nothing from yourself. (Page 55)

One ought not talk about oneself, it may hide Jesus from view.

All suffering comes from cherishing ourselves. All happiness comes from cherishing others. —Tibetan saying

They're homicide bombers," Eagle said. "I hate when they call them suicide bombers. If they were suicide bombers, they'd go out into the middle of the desert and blow themselves up. Don't take others with you.