Quotes About Selflessness

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

It is better to give than receive- especially advice

We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.

The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.

For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody's got to give up a little bit of their individuality.

When we come to Christ, we're no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus.

Our goal is to develop our team, to earn what we get, to learn, to develop unselfish attitudes. If we achieve that, the results is that we'll win.

But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win.

I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!

Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

It's not about me, it's about how I can help my team to achieve more. And I do that through scoring goals.

My goal is to be able to play wherever my team needs me.

Scoring a lot of points is not a goal of mine. I just do whatever I do best to help my team win. I'm a role player.

Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.

Learn to live in this world with self-respect. You should always cherish some ambition of doing something in this world. But remember that the age of selflessness has ended. A new epoch is set in. All things are now possible because of your being able to participate in the politics and legislature of your country.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.