Quotes About Selflessness

My dearest girl, dearer to me than anything in life, if you are unhappy, let me share your unhappiness. If you are in need of help or counsel, let me try to give it to you. If you have indeed a burden on your heart, let me try to lighten it. For whom do I live now, Agnes, if it is not for you!

think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you!

Eu vou dizer-te o que é o amor verdadeiro. É o devotamento cego, humilhação de si mesmo sem questionamento, submissão absoluta, é fé e confiança contra si mesmo e contra o mundo inteiro, é entregar-se de corpo e alma ao carrasco... Foi assim que amei!

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; It is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Ti dirò .... che cosa è il vero amore. E' devozione cieca, pronta ad umiliarsi, a sottomettersi completamente, a confidare e credere a dispetto di se stessi e del mondo intero, dando cuore e anima senza riserve a chi li infiamma...

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me.

Gerçek sevginin ne oldu?unu anlatay?m sana," dedi. "Körü körüne ba?lanmak, kendini hiç sorgusuz a?a??latmakt?r. Kar??ndakine yüzde yüz boyun e?mek; kendi akl?na, tüm dünyan?n uyar?lar?na kar?? ona güvenmek, benli?ini cellat?n?n eline hiç esirgemeden vermektir. Benim yapt???m gibi!

although Sydney Carton would never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal,

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.

She personified a principled regard for the community, which to me reflects Adam Smith's vision: And hence it is, that to feel much for others, and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety.3

It is always the secure who are humble.

Humble is such a lonely word.

People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder.

Wash out your ego every once in a while — cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.

Don't let those who take advantage of your generosity stop you from being generous.

Because that's what kindness is. It's not doing something for someone else because they can't, but because you can.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero. He can say he doesn't like pie, when he sees there is not enough to go round.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe!

What was the point of being selfless and brave if no one knew about it?

We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good—for putting a personal sense of doing right above any objective measure of the outcome. It's called 'moral vanity'.

Then you have to be nothing. Want nothing. You can't have them-Kat or Annabel-if you need them. You're not a husband. You're not a father. You're a man with a task. Understand?

One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong. Many who held no faith in the Force acted righteously, and he had known more than one sentient who had acted selfishly, even cruelly, and used belief to justify doing so.