Quotes About Selflessness

Before I had my babies, I would tend to be self-absorbed, and worry about little things, but now I am a changed person.

Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.

Sometimes I play better. Sometimes I have a bad game. But as a team, it's not about me.

I don't have any children, but I can leave my land to an animal sanctuary. That is what I dream about, not bags, not shoes.

If I don't need to shoot the ball, I won't do it.

For me, an assist is the same as getting a basket.

For India, it is all about whatever number they want me to bat and not the other way round.

I don't want personal battles that take away from the team. I'm trying to win games.

People have sacrificed more to make me be happy than I could ever dream of.

I'm just ready to do whatever my team needs me to do. I'm just going to be prepared and ready to go out there and do my role, and do whatever my team needs me to do to win games.

Everyone knows what Cristiano is like. He is not obsessed with beating records, but rather he aims to help the team to win.

I'm not a player who beats his own drum.

It's a beautiful thing when you serve the team.

There is no room for selfish behaviour at Bayern.

Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.

Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.

Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient…only the universe rearranging itself.

TRY: Noticing the resistance to the impulse to give, the worries about the future, the feeling that you may be giving too much, or the thought that it won't be appreciated "enough," or that you will be exhausted from the effort, or that you won't get anything out of it, or that you don't have enough yourself.

Imagine forty-five years of profound teaching distilled into one sentence: "Nothing is to be clung to as 'I,' 'me,' or 'mine.

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others. . .

Such was the Bush code: Strive for victory, but never seem self-involved

If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God's.

He wondered if an action, to qualify as authentically good, needed not only to be untainted by self-interest but also to bring no pleasure of any kind.

Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be like, right? But in fact, if you think about it, that's kind of a strange belief. Given what we know about the way people really are. Selfish and shortsighted and egotistical and needy. Why should being a parent, in and of itself, somehow confer superior-personhood on everybody who tries it? Obviously it doesn't.