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Quotes About Selflessness

It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.
~ Anthony Liccione
Not greedy of filthy lucre.
~ Bible
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.
~ Alfred Adler
Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.
~ Philip Larkin
Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.
~ Duke Snider
Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer
~ Sadhu Sundar Singh
If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.
~ Donald Miller
Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?
~ John Green
You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.
~ Kevin Durant
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
~ Jessica Lange
She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.
~ Rajiv Gandhi
Leave your existence to existence, stop caring for yourself so much and let the universe care for you; it is the best mother.
~ Mooji
There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.
~ Gerald R. Ford
As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.
~ Susan Ford
Simply having children does not make mothers.
~ John G. Shedd
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do
~ George Bernard Shaw
My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.
~ Barry Sanders
My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.
~ Peggy Guggenheim
Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.
~ Shonda Rhimes
My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.
~ Vandana Shiva
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood.
~ James E. Faust
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
~ Eric Hoffer