Quotes About Selflessness

Love is always bestowed as a gift! freely, willingly, and without expectation.... We don't love to be loved, we love to love

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.

Love requires sacrifice, but it's worth it

In all my life, I'd never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words to me, what mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

I sold the collection because I finally understood what true love really meant. Tim had told me-and shown me-that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. - John Tyree

For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams.

Why does love always seem to require sacrifice?

El amor es paciente, es bondadoso. El amor no es envidioso, ni jactancioso, ni orgulloso. No se comporta con rudeza, no es egoísta, no se enoja fácilmente, no guarda rencor. El amor no se deleita en la maldad, sino que se regocija con la verdad. Todo lo disculpa, todo lo cree, todo lo espera, todo lo soporta.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

Mum was an absolutely determined woman. She was determined I would have a good education, and they went without all sorts of things to ensure it.

I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.

I don't like to celebrate my own achievements.

More than my own happiness, it's my mother's happiness that makes me happy.

I'm no saint, and I don't want to come across like one, but there is not a day that goes by that I'm not doing something for someone else with a very large chunk of my time.

The mythic journey is always about selflessness.

Success to me means serving a calling higher than yourself that improves the lives of everyone and is done completely in the name of service.

The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

I've been a character artiste for four decades, and in our job, we learn very early that it doesn't pay to be narcissistic.

I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests.

I will keep playing for the national team until I feel I can't offer them anything.

When you finally have kids, you realize how selfish you are. I think we are naturally selfish beings. When you have kids, that can kind of be a shock at first. I think just trying to make time for yourself is very hard. Especially now that I have 3, finding that time can be very difficult.