To stimulate and inspire his confidence and unselfishness means growth, success, and happiness for him in his future years, while the opposite practice may mean failure and misery.
Unselfishness is the very highest type of courageousness and one must live for the good he may do the world instead of his own personal aggrandizement.
The highest honor our nation could bestow upon a man was to allow him to leave his heavenly country and become a martyr to his own unselfishness in trying to uplift the Apeman species.
The Albigenses were no less zealous than the Vaudois in reproving the church clergy and setting an example of purity and unselfishness of life.
Wherefore let all pure lovers know that love is pure unselfishness which is born undoubtedly from the heart and from the eyes," a sentiment thus repeated by Guido delle Colonne of the Sicilian school.
He admitted that "if indulgence invariably implied unselfishness the American would certainly have nothing with which to reproach himself in his relations with his children.
She had loved him then, but more than then or yesterday she loved him now for the unselfishness of a devotion which could dare so much without hope of other reward than she could give him.
But the tide overtook their unselfish wives who were attached to the path of unselfishness and compassion blended as it was with the path of devotion to the Lord Sri Krishna.
Unselfishness grows out of selfishness, spirituality rises out of materiality.
He united in himself the spirituality of Karma Kanda and the unselfishness of the path of Devotion.
With all unselfishness and devotion, Prahlada was an Asura, because he worked from the stand point of individual life.
And this desire, though evil when excessive, is in moderation one of the greatest of human virtues; for it sets men upon deserving the affection of their neighbors and promotes unselfishness and self-sacrifice.
Whether man will ever develop to a point of unselfishness that will enable him to entertain this idea is a matter of speculation.
But it was perhaps well they fell into Christine's hands: she could not but be a better woman for reading the simple records of a strife which set perfect unselfishness and child-like submission as the goal of its duties.
And he went thoughtfully back to his work, murmuring hopes and apologies for the man he loved, with all the forgiving unselfishness of a prayer in them.
She was bright and capable, but they felt a want they were not able to analyze; the want was that pure unselfishness which was the ruling spirit of their own lives.
But he, touching as he is in the humility and tender unselfishnessof his love, is too exclusively of the artist temperament to give direction or sustainment to the deeper moral requirements of her being.
When it comes into your heads to praise a fellow creature for his unselfishness it is because you somehow find it to your own advantage.
Your lives must be full of kind deeds towards each other, full of gentle and loving affections, full of unselfishness and truth: this is true piety.
Instances of such high unselfishness happen daily, that, though I forget them daily, I feel myself strengthened in my trust in human nature, without making any reflections about it.
When we remember how rare a thing utter unselfishness and self-forgetfulness is, we must conclude that she is crazy.
The real meaning of unselfishnesshas many a time been learned first through a strong friendship.
It is in the home that habits of unselfishness must be developed or they are likely never to be developed at all.
Yes, she does, but it isunselfishness none the less.
In the home there is an opportunity to practice unselfishness every day and every hour.
The principles governing missions are permeated with the elements of love, unselfishness and self-sacrifice.
In the ordinary labourer this domestic unselfishness or house patriotism is a kind of miniature public spirit.
The starving man must be allowed a smaller range of unselfishness than the man who has enough.
Between the unselfishness of those who are older and the self-centredness of those who are younger, there is often sad havoc made in a home.
Forbearance and unselfishness were recompensed by the calm tenderness with which she could regard one who at the outset had appeared likely to cause nothing but frets and misunderstandings.
His eyes danced, and Maurice thought his unselfishness deserved a reward.
And at the same time it showed her the noble unselfishness of the daughter, who not only took upon herself the burden so easily shifted by the parents, but who accepted her fate cheerfully.
She was ready to sacrifice herself for others, but she had enough common sense to realize that too great unselfishness in details would in the end destroy her power of aiding in larger matters.
His unselfishness is shown in his conduct during the famous state trials, in which Holcroft, his most intimate friend, Horne Tooke, and several other highly prized acquaintances, were accused of high treason.
She had set up a beautiful unselfishness in her heart and had consecrated it.
Its last words touched him by their perfect unselfishness and also by their feminine romance.
To say that unselfishness itself is only the more refined expression of a selfish instinct, is to use the term selfish with a double meaning, is a mere empty play on words.
It should be with the tenderness and the unselfishness which characterize the filial and paternal relation, blending love with natural affection, and making it manifest in common intercourse.
That this should be Hermione's reward for her noble unselfishness roused in him something that was like fury; and then there followed a more torturing fury against himself.
In her unselfishness she had committed the error of dividing herself from him.
How could she doubt that David had spoken them when he had tried with loving unselfishness to say them to her!
