Quotes About Selflessness

Heroes in real life don't wear masks and capes. Sometimes they don't stand out at all. But real heroes can save a life - or many lives - just by answering the call in their heart.

'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.

Mothers are so awesome. They do so much. They wear so many hats and have very passionate relationships with their kids, and with life, and I think it's a real balance having your own existence and then being this responsible, kind of loving person in someone else's life or several other people's lives.

I clear my wardrobe of anything I'm not wearing and give the clothes to charity.

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

I tell people all the time that it would be good if they forget about me next week, that they don't even mention my name anymore.

What makes me a selfish player? Because I shoot the ball? I'm supposed to shoot the ball. That's how you score points. Those points go on the scoreboard for the whole team.

I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away.

I want to be a public servant, not a politician.

You don't need to wear a politician's garb to serve public.

I discourage a cult of personality.

I love to play, and I love the sport, but I don't play it to gain popularity.

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

I took charge of the government as per my commitment to serving the country and the people, and not out of any greed for yet another post.

I will never go to the Centre. I have never been an aspirant for any post or for any role at the Centre.

My mum still needs all her pots and pans, so she's not giving me any of hers yet.

My mum, Doris, was a source of unalloyed love. She lived for her family and would literally give you her last pound. I think she's made me a kinder person, because I think: Do I want to help this person? If my mum was around, she would have.

Greatness is empowered in a system where you pass the ball, not pound it.

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

We believe in satisfying our own needs but always considering others.