Walter Becker Quotes

I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

It is better to forget about yourself altogether.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

Before I got big, I was playing point guard, so I'm kinda like a pass-first person. Some people tell me I should be more selfish, but that's not me.

... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

I'm not one to speak about myself. I like to speak about the people around me.

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead of me. They're much better for the role.'

I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself.

The Aryan is not greatest in his mental qualities, but in his noblest form he willingly subordinates his own ego to the community and, if the hour demands, even sacrifices it.

The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.

I go out of my way to help people, but I don't tell people. Goodness is not about beating your own drum.

I feel like I'm a nice character, and I don't have my own agenda.

I'm not some person who wants to be treated as a superstar and won't go out and help the team.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.