Quotes About Selflessness

My own inclinations must not be followed--to duty I sacrifice them.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...

I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me in the present, the immersion in blood, pus, and tears -- the fluids in which one dissolved all traces of self. In working myself ragged, I felt integrated...

I realized if something happens to him, it happens to me, too. If I love myself, I love him, for we are one. That makes it a risk worth taking for me - it wouldn't be for anyone else, unless they loved him.

Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself...one day it all works out.

The ambulance crews brought the victims to us before the tires on the wreck stopped spinning. They salvaged people we'd never see in Missing, because no one would have tried to bring them to a hospital. Judging someone to be beyond help never crossed the minds of police, firemen, or doctors here. A

I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I've been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel that I never got wet.

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it's valuable in a marathon.

The fear of being judged as weak or naïve prevents many people from operating like givers at work.

Excellence is the product of high aspirations and low ego.

Chip Conley, the renowned entrepreneur who founded Joie de Vivre Hotels, explains, "Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it's valuable in a marathon

Perhaps nowhere is the selfless, sacrificial love of God more clearly displayed than when someone takes on the task of raising and loving a child who is not biologically theirs. They didn't have to take the job, they had a choice, but they chose to set aside their fears and accept the calling to be a stepparent, foster parent, or adoptive parent.

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

The common good before the individual good.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.

I don't really want acknowledgement or want people to pat me on the back or whatever. I just want to help the people I feel like I can help and if there's an opportunity where I feel like I can help, I do it.

Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.

I have never been one to seek or want attention or admiration or a pat on the back for what I've done.

It's amazing, all of the ways that having kids has changed me. I'm a much less selfish person because of them, and compared to who I was before, my patience level seems infinite.

With a baby, you have to be responsible, selfless, and patient. I was never into those things. I got what I wanted. I did what I wanted. I didn't consider myself a patient person.