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Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity. -- David Niven
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. -- Mortimer Adler
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile. -- Alan Watts
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. -- Billy Graham
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. -- James Weldon Johnson
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate. -- Michael Jordan
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. -- Iris Murdoch
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. -- Bernard Cornwell
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. -- Joseph Conrad
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. -- Charles William Eliot
To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players. -- LeBron James
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share. -- A. N. Wilson
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. -- Billy Graham
An unselfish dream, goal, or service can help us to the height of spiritual living. -- Harold Klemp
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. -- Helen Keller
The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish. -- J. G. Holland
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb. -- Pat Riley
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another. -- Erma Bombeck
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful. -- Swami Vivekananda
Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure of the heart, an unselfish work, a sacred trust that blesses both giver and receiver. -- Bonnie D. Parkin
The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned. -- Dale Carnegie
Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions. -- Stephen G. Post
None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death. -- Swami Vivekananda
Objective judgement, 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
I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today. -- Gordon Ramsay
I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible. -- Chris Evert
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. -- Buddha
We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts. -- Dada Vaswani
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power. -- Orison Swett Marden
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
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
I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates. -- LeBron James
Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you. -- Adam Oates
Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides. -- John Raleigh Mott
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world. -- Ellen G. White
We are unselfish and we trust each other -- Tim Duncan
Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do. -- Paul Billheimer
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
People have always told me, 'Yo, you're too unselfish. Shoot more.' -- Lamar Odom
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral. -- Swami Vivekananda
If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish. -- John Brady
One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world. -- Elbert Hubbard
Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind. -- Lauryn Hill
...the act of kindness is an unselfish act, it is medicine for your soul... -- Travis Culliton
Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals. -- Albert Einstein
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. -- George Santayana
D-Wade is the unselfish guy here-he is welcoming Chris Bosh and LeBron James to his team. -- LeBron James
Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you. -- Jessica Chastain
Reach out a hand to your brother, for the unselfish look out for their fellow man. -- Samuel S. Sumner
Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth. -- Anna Howard Shaw
Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man. -- Myrtle Reed
True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared. -- Thomas Merton
There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love. -- William Henry Drummond
To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains. -- Swami Vivekananda
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever. -- Timothy Keller
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother. -- Swami Vivekananda
Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world. -- Robin Hobb
The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity. -- Billy Graham
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. -- Andre Simon
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb -- Patanjali
Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come. -- Rebecca Ruter Springer
The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service... -- John Ellerton
It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done. -- Gayle Forman
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
True friendship is an unconditional, unselfish, reciprocal service not by lips, but heart to never let its in-built trust to ever fall apart. -- Anuj
... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer. -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
When all is said and done, the unselfish acts of what we have done without asking for anything in return, will have said it all. -- Brian Jett
I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside. -- Marlene Zuk
Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like. -- John Cleese
A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,"?when? -- Ridgely Torrence
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. -- Mark Twain
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. -- Swami Vivekananda
Our Savior gave Himself in unselfish service. He taught that each of us should follow Him by denying ourselves of selfish interests in order to serve others. -- Dallin H. Oaks
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying." -- Mark Twain
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple. -- Swami Vivekananda
Our goal is to develop our team, to earn what we get, to learn, to develop unselfish attitudes. If we achieve that, the results is that we'll win. -- Marv Levy
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -- to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly sympathies and affections. -- Mary Howitt
The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. -- Billy Graham
If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway. -- Wendy Mass
Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come. -- Rebecca Ruter Springer
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
Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building. -- Dean Smith
I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on. -- Melanie Roach
Kindness isn't sacrifice so much as it is being considerate for the feelings of others, sharing happiness, the unselfish thought, the spontaneous and friendly act, forgetfulness of our own present interests. -- Carl Holmes
That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it. -- John Ruskin
Almost every day brings opportunities to perform unselfish acts for others. Such acts are unlimited and can be as simple as a kind word, a helping hand, or a gracious smile. -- James E. Faust
People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good about themselves. Even that really is a selfish decision. -- Cheon Eunbi
That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a heaven of stars. -- Mary Gardiner Brainard
How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us - in the depths of her own agony and desolation! -- Alphonsus Liguori
Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours. -- Swami Vivekananda
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up. -- Barbara Kingsolver
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
True Christianity is love in action. There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for your fellow men. This is the spirit of missionary work -- David O. McKay
But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough. -- Aprilynne Pike
Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got -- Lauryn Hill
Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father. -- Jack H. Goaslind

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