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I just bring the determination to win. — LeBron James

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Compromise is what binds people together. Compromise is sharing and conciliatory, it is loving and kind and unselfish. — Ali Harris

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. — Gautama Buddha

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world. — Elbert Hubbard

'Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday you will be a real boy.' The Blue Fairy said that. In Pinocchio. — Robert Crais

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. — Mortimer Adler

Was this love in its purest form, unrequited yet all-consuming and unselfish? — Jacqueline Patricks

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

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever. — Timothy Keller

An unselfish dream, goal, or service can help us to the height of spiritual living. — Harold Klemp

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

To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action. — Alcoholics Anonymous

Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader. — Oscar Patton

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

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. — George Santayana

I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain. — Erin McCarthy

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small. — Eva K. Logue

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

There is no greater gift than to give your life for another. That is the most unselfish act a person can preform. — Stephen B. Fraser

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible. — Chris Evert

The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity. — Billy Graham

So now we can build an unselfish society by devoting to unselfishness the frenzy we once devoted to gold and to underpants. — Kurt Vonnegut

People have always told me, 'Yo, you're too unselfish. Shoot more.' — Lamar Odom

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature. That's why we're given a lifetime to learn it. — Rick Warren

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

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth. — Anna Howard Shaw

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity. — David Niven

I do not need your sympathy or condolence; if I am an atheist, there are reasons for that and those reasons are thoughtful, unselfish and conscious. — M.F. Moonzajer

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb. — Pat Riley

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish. — John Brady

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action. — M. Scott Peck

Be unselfish in your love. Remember, you are not the cat. — Bill Zimmerman

Corporate worship is to be unselfish. — Mark Driscoll

You know I am not a champion of marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. — Oscar Wilde

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral. — Swami Vivekananda

Dream a better dream, an unselfish dream, a dream to make the world a better place, then work to make that dream a reality — Unkown Author

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

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

Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The only greatness is unselfish Love. — Paulo Coelho

The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality. — Oscar Wilde

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother. — Swami Vivekananda

There are no unselfish acts. When people do something for someone else, it's always for their own personal psychological reasons. — Joe Hill

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

If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal — Susan Vreeland

Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions. — Stephen G. Post

The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish. — J.G. Holland

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

You want me to be unselfish? A vampire is selfish. We kill so that we can survive, that is the ultimate selfishness. — Caroline Hanson

Objective judgment ... Unselfish action ... Willing acceptance ... of all external events. — Marcus Aurelius

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

Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do. — Paul Billheimer

There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those who function so they can give something. — Sarah Noffke

We are unselfish and we trust each other — Tim Duncan

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals. — Albert Einstein

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared. — Thomas Merton

There may be unselfish natures, there may be disinterested feelings. — Henry James

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Customs are generally unselfish.
Habits are nearly always selfish. — G.K. Chesterton

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

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains. — Swami Vivekananda

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

...the act of kindness is an unselfish act, it is medicine for your soul... — Travis Culliton

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. — L.M. Montgomery

See how the masses 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

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. — Helen Keller

Helpful is happy.
Selfish is sad.
(It's not uncommon to confuse the two.) — Richelle E. Goodrich

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world. — Robin Hobb

D-Wade is the unselfish guy here-he is welcoming Chris Bosh and LeBron James to his team. — LeBron James

Being selfish only benefits a few. Considering others benefits all of mankind. — Terraine Francois

Love, she realized at that terrible moment of truth, could be incredibly unselfish, even when it hurt until she bled. — Nalini Singh

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man. — Myrtle Reed

Reach out a hand to your brother, for the unselfish look out for their fellow man. — Samuel S. Sumner

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today. — Gordon Ramsay