Quotes About Selflessness

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

I would have come to play at United for absolutely nothing if I'd been given the chance - everyone I played with at the time would have done that, too.

If I have team-mates who can win individual accolades, then I will do everything to help them.

I'm definitely not a personal-type guy where I care about personal accolades and stuff, but definitely a team-guy first.

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

I try to make it less about myself, less about my individual accomplishments and more about the team.

I never feel proud of my work and say that this is my biggest achievement.

I'm easy to adapt to. I'm not going to come in and say I need this shot, I need the ball here or there. Doesn't matter.

In football, I've always been about adapting to what's asked of me, to what my team-mates need from me. I'm a team player.

If you want to serve in a Trump administration, you're going to serve this country, not yourself.

I've always tried to balance my life with what is good for me but also keeping in mind how it affects somebody else.

I feel like I'm a nice character, and I don't have my own agenda.

There's no such thing as altruism.

I'm not an ambitious person. I'm very content, and I have no pending dreams. God has given me so much, and if there's one thing I really want to do, it's to serve the people.

I never like to say that I'm better than anybody else.

I'm not better than anyone else.

I don't really expect anything from anyone else that I wouldn't do myself.

Doing his own benefactions without hope of a celestial harvest, he thought himself on a nobler plane than religious men whom he always accused for making, as he called it, terms with God.

She put all her pride and self-love into making him superior to herself, and not in ruling him. Hearts without tenderness covet dominion, but a true love treasures abnegation, that virtue of strength.

Jeannette, the old cook, took care of the aged couple with blind devotion: she would have stolen the fruit to make their sweetmeats. Instead of taking her money to the savings-bank, she put it judiciously into lotteries, hoping that some day she could bestow a good round sum on her master and mistress

Dinner time arrives, and as a rule I have done nothing. Now comes the problem which faces me twice every day — how to suffice in my own person for two children, put on their bibs, turn up their sleeves, and get them to eat. In the midst of these ever-recurring cares, joys, and catastrophes, the only person neglected in the house is myself

Pensons à lui, ma mère, répondit Eugénie, et n'en parlons pas. Vous souffrez; vous avant tout. Tout c'était lui.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Being charitable one day a year might make do-gooders like Jimmie feel all soft and gooey inside, but people needed to eat three hundred and sixty-five days a year, not only on December twenty-fifth.