Selflessness Quotes

“To be a child is to be other-centered.”

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”

“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.”

“When you're a mother, you're not the center of your own universe. You are a planet to your children.”

“Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”

“Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”

“To be happy, we need to get out of our own heads and serve other people.”

“Whatever the team needs me to do, that’s what I’m going to do.”

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”

“In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.”

“The nature of love is to give, not to get.”

“The only sin is selfishness.”

“When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.”

“I’m a team player. I’m not a me-guy.”

“We played for the song. We didn't play for ourselves.”

“I want to be remembered as a man who was selfless.”

“If you want to be miserable, think about yourself. If you want to be happy, think about others.”

“A hero is someone who does what he or she can, to the best of his or her ability, without needing a reward.”

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

“True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense.”