Quotes About Selflessness

He never holds friends firmly who watches only after their own wants.

I believed that doing what the other person wanted was love. I did that, and for more than a thousand years I have regretted it. I don't want to repeat the same mistake.

I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members.

In true love you want your partner to be happy. In false love you want your partner.

Blaire, tell me what you want me to do. I'll do whatever it is you need.

Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.

To love someone in the spiritual sense is not based on how I want to love you; its based on what you want.

We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

If I need to help my team and play a different position for that game because somebody is hurt or they want to give a day off to somebody, I'll do it.

When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.

I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job.

It seems like teams want a guy who can get 10, 11, 12 assists. That's the kind of player I want to be. Sometimes that is more important than scoring 30 points a night.

There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.

It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.

Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

It was compassion. The tragic kind of compassion, the kind that sacrifices itself and sees that sacrifice as the only choice and thus no choice at all, one that must be accepted without hesitation.

Sacrifice must be weighed by the pain of what is surrendered, and this alone was the true measure of a virtue's worth.

The perfect hero is one whose heroism none sees. The most precious glory is the glory lost on senseless winds. The highest virtue is the one that remains for ever hidden within oneself.

None of us can ever humble ourselves too much.

Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

If you seek honor and respect you will not find it, for a leader is powerless to elevate himself. It is only when you serve others without regard for self, will honor, respect and lasting success be found.