GLORY

How often are you less inclined to do something based purely on the knowledge that you will not receive any of the credit for it?
Let's think about the stem of a flower. 
They provide a few important functions: storing food for the entire plant, transportation between roots and the rest of the plant, and for holding up the flower of course.  But how many of us look at a tulip and think, "Wow, that stem is doing a fantastic job"?
A stem has no choice in it's day to day activities.  When the sun comes up, it's holding up a flower.  When the sun goes down, it's holding up a flower.  Animals of all shapes and sizes are drawn to the flower's aesthetically pleasing nature.  After all, it was designed that way by the man upstairs because the reproduction of the plant depends on something or someone transferring the pollen.
Birds, bees, dogs, people, pass by throughout the day admiring the flower, ignoring the stem.
Actually, a day of being ignored is probably a good day for a stem.  The alternative is the horror or failure.  A child on his way home from school decides to take a flower home to his mother and snaps the stem in two.  A nasty rain or wind storm proves too much for the stem to handle.  The stem endures all of this, risks its very being, just to support that flower in every way. 
But, it's worth it, right?  Just think of the bouquets and vases of flowers sent every day for some one's anniversary, birthday, or birth of a baby. 
Now imagine what life would be like if we all lived every day without worry of where our work would be attributed.  What if everyone made a choice based on what was the right thing to do, and not who would notice and what kind of attention it would bring?  It's unlikely, sure, but if we all worked together and didn't care who was the stem and who was the flower, we'd have a garden rivaling that of the Queen of England.  (Cheesy, yes, but true!)
It's amazing what could be accomplished if it didn't matter who got the glory.