Chris Evert Quotes

The only care That I shall share Shall be the care of others, And on the road I'll halve the load Of overburdened brothers. I rather guess It's selfishness That drives me to such actions, For in this plan I find I can Forget my own distractions.

We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.

It is only in helping someone else to awake that I awake.

The biggest thing I've learned is that it's not about me. All of the things that I do have to be about bringing service to the world and helping people shift their perception.

You can't focus on yourself. You need to focus on what you're doing for others, and then you can start to heal.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness

We can't be useful to ourselves unless we're useful to others .... Anyone concerned only by his own well-being will suffer eventually. Anyone concerned with the well-being of others takes care of himself without even thinking about it. Even if we decide to remain selfish. let us be intelligently selfish - let us help others.

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

By helping others come unto Him, you will find that you have come unto Him yourself

I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.