Quotes About Selflessness

My parents came from little, so they made a choice to give a lot: buying turkeys for homeless shelters at Thanksgiving, delivering meals to people in hospices, giving spare change to those asking for it.

Egos turn me off, big time.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'

I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.

I always say in my tweets, don't do something for credit. Do it because it's the right thing to do.

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

I was on 'The Mike Douglas Show' twice. I was on the cover of practically every magazine in the United States. I never said no to anything. I told everything to everybody. I gave everything away, and when you give it all away, you have nothing left.

[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she does not want to upstage you.

In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.

I have more fun, and enjoy more finan­cial suc­cess, when I stop try­ing to get what I want and start help­ing other peo­ple get what they want.

We always try to encourage more songs sung by Kim, because there are always requests for it. I certainly don't want to ball hog all the singing.

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

Humility is what we want other people to have.

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

The only way two ever live more cheaply than one is if one of them gives up what he or she wants.