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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

... of my life," said Amidon, grasping the little man's hand warmly, "I'm going to take the liberty of holding you as my friend. I know faithfulness and unselfishness when I see it, no matter if I don't quite ...

— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick

... said very clearly, very slowly, but with a fitful nervous ring in his voice: "Go back to your homes! Would you hang this poor old woman without a trial? Can you not see that she has lost her mind and is not responsible for her acts? Let the law decide. Shall not her life of unselfishness and good deeds be put against this one insane act of her old age? Go back to your homes! Some of you are my friends, some my neighbors—I ask you for her but a fair trial ...

— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore

... excite inquiry; and, though at first only reinforcing the idea of morality, they ultimately drew men out of themselves into aspirations after the infinite spirit, and developed the sense of dependence, of humility, of unselfishness, of spirituality. They produced indeed evil effects in pantheism and ideology;(740) but the results were partial, the good was general. The problem, What is truth?—was through their means remitted to men for reconsideration; and the answers to it elicited, ...

— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... friend was evidently in excellent spirits, though silent and preoccupied, from which I inferred that he was satisfied with the results of his labours; but, as I sat by his side in the hansom, I forbore to question him, not from mere unselfishness, but rather from the desire to hear his evidence for the first time in conjunction with that ...

— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman

... Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, was due the splendid response to the call to arms of the Canadian people. He put duty before public applause of petty politics like a true Canadian. Future generations will do full credit to his unselfishness. ...

— The Red Watch - With the First Canadian Division in Flanders • J. A. Currie

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