Quotes About Selflessness

The way I see it," she began, "your mother's devoted her whole life to you kids." She said "you kids" in precisely the same tone I would have used for "you infestation of cockroaches

You'll get through it, she said, leaving out the part I already knew-because you're a mother now. Because mothers don't have a choice.

How can I truly serve others if I'm also serving myself, or my ego?

War still was the stern school where men learnt virtue, duty, forgetfulness of self, faithfulness unto death.

How do you not try to get something you want? How do you stop caring about the thing that you care about the most? How do you erase the other half of your own self?

You don't really want my side of the story. You don't want to understand me, know me, to crawl inside of my head. You don't want to feel the things I've felt. You just want to know that one thing: why. Fine. Here's why: Her. I did it all for her.

True sacrifice is painless.

She had denied herself the pleasure of openly sharing life with the person she loved.

Be very careful. Giving because we think we will get something back will not work. You must be 100 percent willing to give and never experience any return, or it will not work.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal-interest.

True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

I think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you're about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.

A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Everyone should be praised by the lips of his neighbor, and not by his own mouth. Everyone should be commended by the work he has done, not by what he wanted to do.

Best thing that's ever happened to me. I focus so much less on me. It's made me content, it's made me happy. It's like a Christmas present every single day that I get to unwrap. It's hard work.

Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

We live not to ourselves, our work is life.

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.

I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!