Self Sacrifice Quotes
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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
do not sacrifice that to anything else. — John D. Rockefeller
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.
— Sai Baba
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 progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
— T. S. Eliot
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
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,
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
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
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
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
There is but on virtue
the eternal sacrifice of self. — George Sand
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.