Quotes about Selflessness

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.

Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing.