Doe Quote by Anna Howard Shaw

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

— Anna Howard Shaw

All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and…

— Anne Rice

“It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.”

— M. Scott Peck

So I tell you, my son, that the secret of true happiness is for him who asks nothing in return. The perfectly unselfish man…

— Paul Twitchell

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

— Reinhold Niebuhr

In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be…

— Henry Clay Trumbull

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I'm definitely an unselfish player.

— Justin Jefferson

There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality with eagerness,…

— Mary Webb

“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable…

— Mark Twain

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

— Lauryn Hill

Our goal is to develop our team, to earn what we get, to learn, to develop unselfish attitudes. If we achieve that, the results…

— Marv Levy