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Unselfishness

noun

The quality of not putting yourself first but being willing to give your time or money or effort etc. for others.

Acting generously. Synonym: generosity.

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"Unselfishness" Quotes from Famous Books

... clearly the priceless nature of the gift which comes near their hand. No one would dispute the position that love is a purifying and transforming power; but love, conscious of its worth, loses the humility and the unselfishness in which half its power lies. Even Magdalen, the finest character in the book, is not free from a quality of condescension. In the great love-scene where she accepts Lord Lossiemouth, she comforts him by saying, "You have not only come back to me. You have come back to ...

— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson

... have been a wonderful amount of unselfishness displayed, everybody cheering and trying to help every other body. One of the passengers—a cheery Teuton, named Adolph Herrmann—took a young American lady under his special charge. He helped her up the rigging and ...

— Faces and Places • Henry William Lucy

... friend was a certain Fraulein Sonnenthal, the German governess. She was a kind-eyed Hanoverian, homely and by no means brilliantly clever, but there was something in her unselfishness and in her unassuming humility that won Erica's heart. She never would hear a word against ...

— We Two • Edna Lyall

... finely-tempered speech by Mr. Justin McCarthy, which confirmed Mr. Dillon's frank expression of the Bill as a final measure of emancipation to the Irish people. The obvious sincerity of the speaker—the high character he has, his long consistency, and, above all, the sense of his thorough unselfishness, procured for Mr. McCarthy a respectful and even a sympathetic hearing from all parts of the House, and he had an audience ...

— Sketches In The House (1893) • T. P. O'Connor

... he did it mainly to save himself. It was the instinct of self-preservation that gave him inspiration to accomplish it. But she remained, and remaining she gave me the only food that fell to her arrow, while she starved. That was divine unselfishness—divine sacrifice." ...

— The Gaunt Gray Wolf - A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob • Dillon Wallace

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