True humility means giving joy to others.
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.
Ultimately, the team has to come first even though we all have individual goals and preferences.
Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.
Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.
True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.
No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.
Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or even my girlfriends who are also my family, I put them first no matter what. And it makes it easy to then juggle everything else because it's never a question.
Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.
When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.
It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
I've always put everybody else's child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.
Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.
People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.
Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.
We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me. “Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.
I always put myself second - I like to make others happy.
Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.
Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.
The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.
Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.
In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
