Quotes About Selflessness

En el amor nadie piensa en la conveniencia.

Al final, sólo se tiene lo que se ha dado, como decía Rodrigo, el más generoso de los hombres.

Tenía un alma atormentada. Sentía gusto en la humillación y en las labores abyectas, creía que iba a obtener el cielo por el medio terrible de sufrir iniquidades, por eso se complacía limpiando las pústulas de las piernas enfermas de su madre, lavándola, hundiéndose en sus olores y en sus miserias, escrutando su orinal.

It never crosses your mind to praise something another person is wearing, because they're certain to whip it off and give it to you. If there is food left from a meal, the genteel thing is to give it to the guests to take home, just as you never arrive at someone's house with empty hands.

lloró largamente a esa mujer que había dedicado su existencia a hacer más cómoda la de otros y que murió sola.

I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, and my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and, frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

I have zero ego.

I have zero interest in being vice president.

I try to help the team. It doesn't matter if you have to score 50 points or zero.

If I catch zero passes but we win the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have a problem.

Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.

Once you are wealthy, you are in a nice comfort zone and want to stay there. So I always look in the mirror and ask, is my philanthropy making the world a more just and fair place?

On the day of his death, in his eightieth year, Elliot, 'the Apostle of the Indians,' was found teaching an Indian child at his bedside. 'Why not to rest from your labours now?' asked a friend. 'Because,' replied the venerable man, 'I have prayed God to render me useful in my sphere, and he has heard my prayers; for now that I can no longer preach, he leaves me strength enough to teach this poor child the alphabet.'

Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.

Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity.

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.