Quotes About Selflessness

Motherhood takes vanity completely out of the picture. Comfort is the key. When you are coming out of a plane after a 9-hour flight with drool all over your clothes, the last thing you are worried about is being photographed. You just want to take your kid home.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

I need to step up to the plate, and I can't be selfish, and I need to stop getting in my own way.

At the end of the day, we're here to play basketball but to help the community, too. It's something that makes me feel good and I do it more for me than for the others, but at the end of the day helping others helps yourself, too.

As long as I'm helping the team, I just want to play football.

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

I'm a team player. I will do anything for the team.

I'm not a selfish player - never been a selfish player in my life. Always been about the team.

As great of a player as Yao was, he was kind and patient with everybody. He wasn't trying to feed an image or cultivate a brand or manipulate a public persona.

The players think it's all about them! It's not about them - it's about the game of football, man!

When I was playing basketball, players weren't thinking about themselves as being a brand.

Part of what makes college football great is what you learn playing it. Being selfless, learning how to go through adversity as a group, learning about perseverance.

It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.

I'm not kidding - once you discover the pleasure of giving, how gratifying and satisfying it is, it becomes addictive.

I pledge to dedicate everything I have to working for Japan and for the people.

I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I'm getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, 'Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.'

If you only vote with your back pocket in mind or your own best interest in mind, I believe, it is my belief that's a terrible, terrible way of thinking.

I can really serve the audience instead of making this about me and about serving myself and my pocketbook.

You don't want to be the selfish point guard. You want to be the guy that gets everybody open, that makes plays, and see the ball move before it goes in.

Before I got big, I was playing point guard, so I'm kinda like a pass-first person. Some people tell me I should be more selfish, but that's not me.