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Quotes About Unselfish

I think people have children for all manner of reasons- sometimes out of a pure desire to nurture and witness life, sometimes out of an absence of choice, sometimes in order to hold on to a partner or create an heir, sometimes without thinking about it in any particular way. Not all the reasons to have children are the same, and not all of them are necessarily unselfish. Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though. Not are all those reasons necessarily selfish.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
When you're in a romantic relationship, of course, there is a lot more compromise and you have to be a lot more unselfish.
~ Olivia Wilde
Our vision is to look through the eyes of our kids. We are a lucky, peaceful nation. We are an unselfish people. That's one of our proudest national attributes.
~ Peter Cosgrove
For me, to say I want to go to sleep and retire and prepare for my afterlife, I think that is very selfish.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
In order to be a great team you have to be selfless.
~ Trevor Ariza
I have never liked cats, said Mrs. Gardner remotely. I love them, said Dorothy. They are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Man (???) is meant to be God's garden, his ???????, and bring forth a unique fruit. The fruit of his labors is a life of unselfish devotion to the service of God.
~ Aharon Feldman
I shall do this, not because I am noble or unselfish, but because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
~ Alan Paton
Stout was a leader—quiet, unselfish, modest, yet very strong, very thoughtful and remarkably innovative. Whether speaking or writing, he was economical with words, precise, vivid. One believed what he said; one wanted to do what he proposed." Neither
~ Robert M. Edsel
the last great revival on Planet Earth, we need men like Richey, with deep courage, great faith and tender hearts. We need men like Richey who are able to rise up unselfishly and bless multitudes. We need people who will fling themselves wholeheartedly into every new move. We do not just need the "sons of the prophets" today. We need the prophets themselves!
~ Lester Sumrall
An unselfish dream, goal, or service can help us to the height of spiritual living.
~ Harold Klemp
Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.
~ Albert Einstein
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
~ Gautama Buddha
But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.
~ Ron Jaworski
we are, to the best of our ability, gaining a knowledge of God's will by the practice of faith, honesty, and unselfish service.
~ Ed Webster
She had suddenly a clear view of him as a man extraordinarily clear-sighted in the affairs of others, in great affairs, but in his own so simple as to be almost a baby. And gentle! And extraordinarily unselfish. He didn't betray one thought of self-interest… not one.
~ Ford Madox Ford
No, I wouldn't mind after priests telling us that all prayers that are unselfish and not for ourselves reach God's ears.
~ Frank McCourt
My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their hard work and unselfish dedication to their family, were my mom, Catherine, and my dad, William.
~ Allan Ray
Real people don't learn how to be unselfish. . But maybe they can be more self-aware for a second that they are. Or perhaps they are patheticly more unaware. How do you cure somebody of selfishness? Send them to Mother Teresa school? There's something deep-seated about selfishness.
~ Amy Tan
To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regarding, yet unselfish, abandon.
~ Andrew Solomon
I like assisting goals more than scoring them.
~ Angel Di Maria
Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external events. That's all you need.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Objective judgment Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Unselfish action Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Willing acceptance Ã¢â'¬Â¦ of all external events.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I know now there should have been no higher beatitude than to live in the presence of an unselfish, unasking, vital love.
~ Elizabeth Stoddard