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Quotes About Selfless

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.
~ Gretchen Rubin
The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.
~ Michael Strahan
For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.
~ James McAvoy
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
~ Plato
To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I just go out there and play basketball. I play basketball the way I'd play if I was at the park. There's no motives with me. I'm all for the team, and that's how I play.
~ Patrick Beverley
I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player.
~ Carmelo Anthony
No one will ever say Dwight Clark was selfish.
~ Steve Young
In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
~ Adam Grant
I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.
~ Manny Machado
I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.
~ Vanessa Lachey
That childish ardor for a love that demands sacrifice of you, the rigors and discipline of it, can look selfless from the outside, but it is not selfless. It is instead the elevation of a private fantasy that is ambitious and greedy enough to foist itself onto the unsuspecting world.
~ Katie Roiphe
Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.
~ David Mamet
The son of a bitch got just what he wanted. A big, heroic sacrifice. Now the rest of us are left to clean up the mess. He probably thought he was being selfless or something. But look what he left behind. What he did, that's the most selfish thing you can do. I want to find the jerk who convinced males that martyrdom is cool and kick him in the teeth
~ David Wong
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
~ Frank A. Clark
The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?
~ Frederick Lenz
The most genuine acts of kindness are done without fanfare and when no one is looking.
~ Jason Pollock
Ser filántropo conllevaba una cierta arrogancia, no era para sentimentales.
~ Javier Moro
The trees are whispering to me, reminding me of my roots, and my reach... shhhhhh... can you hear them? Selflessly sharing their subtle song.
~ Jeb Dickerson
All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but history teaches us that there have always been women who went through life without having babies.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Pure, clean, void, tranquil, breathless, selfless, endless, undecaying, steadfast, eternal, unborn, independent, he abides in his own greatness
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
A mother's love is the purest form of magic; a selfless masterpiece that knows no boundaries, defies all odds and endures all obstacles and challenges; it's a love painted with sacrifice, unrivalled dedication and unmatched devotion. Motherhood is indeed an act of unwavering faith and limitless optimism in the future wellbeing of a child - Aloo Denish
~ Aloo Denish
Number 9 (18/9, 27/9, 36/9): Nines are the old souls of the group. They tend to be selfless humanitarians who are more interested in serving the greater good than themselves. If you're a nine, you see the bigger picture of life, and people are drawn to you for the wisdom you offer.
~ Alyson Noel
It's hard to describe yourself as a hero - I just like to think of myself as a policeman. People can look to you like that, as a good guy who can help people.
~ Steve Wilkos