Quotes About Selflessness

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

The secret of marriage is thinking that your partner is better than yourself.

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world.

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

When I married Prince Rainier, I married the man and not what he represented or what he was. I fell in love with him without giving a thought to anything else.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test.

A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.