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I have made this discovery: that it takes more love and self-sacrifice for the father to give up the son than it does for the son to — D.L. Moody

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland

I can't - is sacrificing your potential... — Gino Norris

Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. — Jeanette Winterson

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. — W. Somerset Maugham

Gwendolen. How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us. — Oscar Wilde

The three great acts are love, goodness and self-sacrifice. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers. — Jonathan Haidt

We sacrifice our potential because we do not know that we are pure potential. — Vironika Tugaleva

Myrrh (Arabic, "bitter") was used for the healing of wounds and bruises. Myrrh was also a symbol of self-sacrifice. [329] — Marianna Bartold

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others. — Ayn Rand

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live. — Criss Jami

To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action. — Alcoholics Anonymous

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church. — John Piper

Stars don't have their own light to glint. It is supplied by sun by burning self. One endures pain for others to survive. — Sadashivan Nair

acted, however, with great efficiency and self-sacrifice. But — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What you win them with is what you win them to. — Kyle Idleman

True sacrifice is merely self-control. — David W. Stevens

So while God gives the husband a position of leadership in relationship to his wife, He also requires the price of self-sacrifice from him. The — Stormie O'martian

True sacrifice is the offering of self so that God can realize the power of creativity, compassion and friendship in and through your life. — Keith Ward

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance
do not sacrifice that to anything else. — John D. Rockefeller

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Sometimes the smallest acts of sacrifice or self-denial can break up hard soil. A — John Ortberg

Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education. — Sai Baba

Self-sacrifice is something other people always have to pay for. — Marty Rubin

No one knows your inner battle. No one knows the challenge you face. No one knows the sacrifice it takes to do what you do. But you're not alone. — Richie Norton

My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. — Woodrow Wilson

For I was sure of one thing, it wasn't always the hero who saved the world. It was the person most willing to die first. — R.K. Ryals

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. — Honore De Balzac

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. — Akira Kurosawa

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters. — Karen Traviss

What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have. — Stephenie Meyer

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. — Boris Pasternak

The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. — Ron Pearce

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. — T. S. Eliot

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice. — Kris Vallotton

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. — Morihei Ueshiba

I felt a surge of anger at her for disregarding my noble self-sacrifice. I — Bella Forrest

Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice. — Stephen Covey

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all. — Criss Jami

You must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself. — Auliq Ice

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice. — Angela Kinsey

The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves. — Cesar Chavez

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another. — Charles Caleb Colton

Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler. — S.D. Smith

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity. — Myles Munroe

If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice. — Sri Chinmoy

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful. — Li Keqiang

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. — Ernest Hemingway,

Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time. — Napoleon Hill

As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own. — Marianne Williamson

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. — Jose Marti

How far should a person go in the name of true love? — Nicholas Sparks

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love. — Vince Lombardi

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. — Aldous Huxley

Are you willing to self -sacrifice to achieve your goals? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left. — Fulton J. Sheen

The speed of your success is limited only by your dedication and what you're willing to sacrifice — Nathan W. Morris

With rocky and dangerous pasts, comes determination and self-sacrifice. — Amanda Bennett

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. — Charles Dickens

Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice. — Ron Brackin

The most sublime act is to set another before you. — William Blake

And now too late, we see these things are one:
The art is sacrifice and self-control
And who loves beauty must be stern of soul. — Alice Duer Miller

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. — Ayn Rand

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! — Honore De Balzac

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. — Vladimir Lenin

The service of self terminates at our own death. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness. — Richard Paul Evans

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind ... — Mary Baker Eddy

Self-denial is spiritual. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. — Stephenie Meyer

There is but on virtue
the eternal sacrifice of self. — George Sand

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice. — Alexis De Tocqueville

There is power in self-sacrifice. I — Veronica Roth

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish. — Abdu'l- Baha

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

To die trying is the proudest humans thing. — Robert A. Heinlein

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. — Shel Silverstein

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Significant change requires significant sacrifice. — A.J. Darkholme

Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. — Jean-Francois De La Harpe

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice. — James Cook

Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it. — Kevin DeYoung

It's better to be alone and keep your dignity than to be in a relationship where you always sacrifice your self respect. — Auliq Ice

Self is for sacrifice and service. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But legends are part of great events, and if they help keep alive the memory of gallant self-sacrifice, they serve their purpose. — Walter Lord

But what desires can always be satisfied despite external circumstances? What are they? Love, self-sacrifice.' He — Leo Tolstoy

All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense. — Richard Brookhiser

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial. — Martin Luther King Jr.

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways. — Mahatma Gandhi

Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment. — Mason Cooley

Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son. — William Torrey Harris