A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
Football 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 to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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.
The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.
[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.
We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.
The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.
Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding. . . And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.
