Quotes About Selflessness

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though I never received one cent for it.

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

You must understand that it is not in the nature of Man to be grateful. So in whatever you or I do for others we must never expect gratitude. If we do, we will only be disappointed.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~

Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.

You give up a lot when you enter the years of parenting. It's a sacrifice.

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

Practice humility and patience.

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

I want to do and I'm giving all the profits to charity, is to teach people to meditate. All it takes is a little bit of patience.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.