Quotes About Selflessness

Your communication should not be for you. Your communication should be a service vehicle to reach the other person. Talking is for the other person. Listening is for you.

A great man is always willing to be little.

If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.

The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.

May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

To do something you're afraid of, especially for the sake of somebody else, is the very definition of courage.

Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.

When you have kids, it takes the focus off of you. You forget about what clothes you're wearing, or if you went to the gym. It makes you a better person if you do it right.

The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.

Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.

But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do.

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.