Quotes Tagged "selfless"

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Maturity means being able to accept the fact that sometimes the things that we wish for will create the histories that we don’t wish for.

I believe in Christmas because God is the only Being I know Who is so utterly selfless as to do such a thing, and so incredibly ingenious as to figure out how to do it.

Without exaggerating the point, the difference between ‘what I should do’ verses ‘what I want to do’ is quite frankly the difference between success and failure.

The greatest ‘victory’ in any victory is that I didn’t make it about myself.

The belief that someone loves us, or should or can love us, as much as we love ourselves is one of the most common signs of intellectual immaturity.

A selfish life isn’t God’s purpose for you

You shouldn’t live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life

Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is the Universe. To be detached, is to realize that the fullness of all there is, is too much to react to with just one emotion, one thought, or any bias. To be detached, is to acknowledge all, without owning any of it. To be detached, is to summon forth the whole entirety of understanding, to the fragment that is the void.

The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America.

My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

The Savior was selfless. He viewed himself and his own needs as secondary, and he ministered to others tirelessly, lovingly, effectively.