Sonny Sandoval Quotes

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

There's no such thing as altruism.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

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

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

I always put myself second - I like to make others happy.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

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

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Because I was an only, I had more things, and I remember early on the kick I got from giving stuff away. Despite all the myths about only children not being able to share, actually I've never knowingly met a stingy one.

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.