Quotes About Selflessness

They can't comprehend what it means to live a life in the service of others.

What I was able to share with people was how I learned that we all need to serve something bigger than ourselves. And if we want to inspire, we need to make ourselves small, not large. Like mothers, for example. Moms can be exhausted and hungry, even injured, but they're wiping our butts throughout the night. Her success, though, is also our success. If we can all be servant leaders, then our teams will thrive and prevail.

Let me strive, every moment of my life, to make myself better and better, to the best of my ability, so that all may profit by it. Let me think of the right, and lend all my assistance to those who need it, with no regard for anything but justice. Let me take what comes with a smile, without loss of courage. Let me be considerate of my country, of my fellow citizens and my associates in everything I say and do. Let me do right to all, and wrong to no man.

I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.

I served my country in uniform for 26 years.

I appreciate our men and women in uniform so much. They are the real heroes. I can't fathom the selflessness involved in serving our country.

My mom has always put everyone before herself and sacrificed things unimaginable.

Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.

How can you create a team and bring all these egos together? The main goal for Manchester United is for them to play well - and not have a player saying, 'I play well; I scored two goals'. Because if I score two goals, but three goals go into our net, then we lose.

Football is teamwork, unity, defence, assists, sacrifice.

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices.

The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.