Both men and women who have children as a rule regulate their lives largely with reference to them, and children cause perfectly ordinary men and women to act unselfishly in certain ways, of which perhaps life insurance is the most definite and measurable.

Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in the eyes of all beholders.

Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

My team at Pittsburgh is the greatest example of unselfishness and giving of oneself. They bought into that, and it's brought those kids championships, and it's brought all those kids so much glory.

Unselfishness is contagious.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

I think it's really important to have a vision of teamwork, team play, and unselfishness.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Any player that values winning, success would be great in a system that emphasizes unselfishness and ball movement and player movement.

The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and 'play the game,' and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.