Quotes About Selflessness

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

Perhaps the greatest thing you can achieve is to love without demanding anything in return.

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. "But I don't want anything else in the world.

Be more generous to others than you would ever expect anyone to be to you.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can get from each other and that's determined by how much you're giving to each other. But it all starts within our self and then it spreads to those around us, good and bad. But basically, that's it, I think it's the love that we can generate is equal to the love that we get back ... Amen.

Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

He who speaks of his own accord seeks glory for himself; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is no deception in his heart.

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis

A man of the Night's Watch lives his life for the realm. Not for a king, nor a lord, nor the honor of this house or that house, neither for gold nor glory nor a woman's love, but for the realm, and all the people in it. A man of the Night's Watch takes no wife and fathers no sons. Our wife is duty. Our mistress is honor. And you are the only sons we shall ever know.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

She would be no one if that was what it took. No one had no holes inside her.

I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.

In the end a gentle heart may be worth more than pride or valor.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

My life is a poor thing, but it is yours.

If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.

Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Love is not "fulfilling" oneself through the use of another. Love is giving oneself to another, for the good of the other, and receiving the other as a gift.78 The lethal paradox of the age was that, for all its alleged humanism, it had ended up devaluing the human person into an economic unit, an ideological category, an expression of a class or race or ethnicity.