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Today, I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance, love, selflessness, kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
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We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
Do some selfless service for people who are in need.
Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.
- Nina Hagen
A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit,
who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people.
A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.
- Debi Mazar
It is my choice to care deeply about others.
No kindness is too small to be important -
the smile to the bank teller,
the sincere "thank you" for all kindnesses received,
the reassuring hand on the shoulder of a loved one or friend.
There is compassion in selfless generosity,
but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty,
there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer;
into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
- Nancy Astor
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous,
without being selfless.
- Mortimer Adler
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless.
If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
- Michael Eisner
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
- Edward Albert
Man can never be a woman's equal
in the spirit of selfless service
with which nature has endowed her.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought
the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.
- Gerry Adams
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human
understanding from the people I have met in this great
adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat,
competitive world in which I spent my life.
- Anthony Perkins
It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers
respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural
disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.
- Jon Porter
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart.
Then through his grace one realize him in course of time.
God can be seen.
One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
- Ramakrishna
Always do good to others.
Be selfless.
Mentally remove everything and be free.
This is divine life.
This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
- Swami Sivananda
It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that
they have to take care of themselves first.
It's hard to get players to give in to the group and
become selfless as opposed to selfish.
- Isiah Thomas
But then my mother, who's a very selfless,
stoic person from a family of Marines,
would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us -
he would make more money; therefore,
we'd be able to get better educations.
- Patricia Richardson
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad
and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal.
And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself
in acts from the brave to the brutal,
the selfless to the senseless.
- Katherine Dunn
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.
- Jim Walsh
Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today.
These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian
lives to put on the uniform and serve us.
- Steve Buyer
Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made.
The sacrifices we made were selfless.
The options we offered were patriotic while the paths
we chose were well thought out.
- Ibrahim Babangida
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport,
where you have five acting as one.
You become selfless.
- Mike Krzyzewski
Christine and I haven't raised our children.
A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed
to helping them become faithful,
competent adults.
- Clayton Christensen
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember
the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war.
We thought first and foremost of the selflessness,
patriotism and heroism by our troops,
our National Guard and Reserves.
- Rosa DeLauro
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may
become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
- Mary Wilson Little
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
- Ambrose Bierce
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
- Frederick Douglass
A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago,
Catholic school children would be wearing little electric
chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
- Lenny Bruce
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men
whose wives think they are out having fun.
- Jim Bishop
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson
Is it bigger than breadbox?
- the early television show Twenty Questions
I mean, I look at my dad.
He was twenty when he started having a family,
and he was always the coolest dad.
He did everything for his kids, and he never made us
feel like he was pressured.
I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
- Adam Sandler
Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together,
in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things.
And anyway the first place is good thing.
- Olga Korbut
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career
preparing for the mystery genre,
which is my favorite literary form.
- Sue Grafton
I'm going to win so much money this year,
my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list.
- Lee Trevino
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease,
where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function,
the end result of which is kidney failure.
- Xavier Becerra
We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years.
Yet during that same period, more and more women and
children have slipped into poverty.
- Robert Casey
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four
hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
- Will Durant
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her;
when she is thirty,
he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
- Leon Blum
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday.
Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
- Steven Wright
I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years.
Must have been twenty something years.
- Gavin MacLeod
I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant,
but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.
- Chuck Tanner
I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what
it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.
- Tracey Ullman
I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years.
I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that,
I'm very thankful.
- Giovanni Ribisi
In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't
have to think about someone else's needs.
And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
- Alice Munro
The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me,
but it did not activate any magical knowledge about
what to do for the next twenty years.
- Mary Kay Blakely
Photography is truth.
The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
- Jean-Luc Godard
Everyone has talent at twenty-five.
The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
- Edgar Degas
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues.
I never made it twenty though.
I played nineteen.
- Bert Campaneris
For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years,
Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows...
the voice follows everything about you...
who you are.'
- Betty Buckley
I have been wounded altogether twenty times;
eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.
- Cole Younger
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker.
And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
- Samantha Bee
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young,
that you have turned twenty-four.
A man is or may be young to after sixty,
and not old before eighty.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's
generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.
- Joe Flanigan
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined
to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.
- Charles W. Pickering
I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years,
before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day,
and before then 14 hours a day.
It was all I had ever done.
- Michael Schenker
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope.
He wants to reform the world.
When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world,
but he know he can't.
- Rodney Dangerfield
Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way
to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd
than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
- Adam Rich
For me, what I really want to come out of it is to
show people that I can hold together a movie,
be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
- Kaley Cuoco
When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.
- Scott Joplin
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man
who returned home after being absent for more than
twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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