Quotes About Selflessness

But what's all this giving of ourselves, what's there to give that'll help anybody

My mom always said if you have a gift, it is absolutely not about you. So I don't get twisted and think for one second it's all about me.

All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.

I have two hands: one for me, one for other people.

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

I'm not really the type that spends money on myself.

Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice.

I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.

A woman's decision to carry a baby to term knowing that she will not reap the fruits of motherhood should be treated as an act of bravery and selflessness - the ultimate standards of good motherhood.

My ultimate goal is to serve the country, the party or medium does not matter.

We are at our best when we give the ultimate sacrifice of putting other people, putting the country, putting our communities ahead of ourselves.

Ultimately, the team has to come first even though we all have individual goals and preferences.

Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

It's always good to bat at the top, where you get more opportunities, but sometimes crucial 30s and 40s can be very helpful for the team. Ultimately it is a team sport. Personal records don't matter much if your team ends up on the losing side.

Truly accomplished artists are humble and unaware of their abilities.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

Let my country die for me.

There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

You are here because some sliver of existence within you says that you are a born fighter. That you will put your life before others, and stand when others fall.

Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.