Quotes About Selfless

I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not tragic, unless you dwell forever in the pursuit of their elusive affections.

War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

Give something and Take take something "Love Is Love It Is Not any Selfless service

Inspiration can't be performed. It's an audience response to authenticity, courage, selfless work, and genuine wisdom.

Supposedly, whatever we do that's selfish goes with us to the grave; whatever we do that's selfless lives on.

I'm a mom first.

Writing something about motherhood, I think that would be pretty cheesy.

There is good and there is bad, and then there are mothers.

Mothers are truly great who can do anything for you. But no one can do what a mother can for her child. That's what makes them special.

I had not yet learned that one cannot really be superior without humility and tolerance and human understanding. I did not yet know that in order to belong to a rare and higher breed one must first develop the true power and talent of selfless immolation.

Grace doesn't add up. This probably explains why most couples shy away from making grace the default mode of their relationships. It's counterintuitive. Intimidating too. Grace is so … selfless. We prefer the simple math behind the cause-effect dynamic within relationships. You scratch my back: I'll scratch yours. You nick my car; I'll burn down your garage.

And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust.

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

It's just that sometimes you love a kid just because they need it. Not because they deserve it, not because you really like them…just because they need love.

tend to side with the Monks of New Skete on the question of the canine desire to please: dogs, they say, care a lot less about pleasing humans than they care about pleasing themselves; if acting in a way that pleases you means something good will happen to them—they'll get a biscuit, a reward, a pat on the back—they're likely to be motivated to carry out the task, but their agenda is not necessarily driven by the pure and selfless wish to make you happy.

Westeros is torn and bleeding, and I do not doubt that even now my sweet sister is binding up the wounds … with salt. Cersei is as gentle as King Maegor, as selfless as Aegon the Unworthy, as wise as Mad Aerys.

Benedict's resignation was a selfless act since he had come to realize he was not capable of leading the modern church and making the tough decisions that were needed. "It wasn't one thing, but a whole combination of them," concluded Paolo Rodari, Il Foglio's veteran Vatican reporter. Vatileaks, said Rodari, "was a constant drumbeat on the Pope."33

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious, and selfish men.

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

My mom is a typical mother.