The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
True self sacrifice is letting that which you love and would die for go to find their happiness even if it is… — Growing Ideals Copy Share Image
Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Life is not worth living until you have someone to die for. And life is not worth dying once you have someone… — Aldyna Threesya Copy Share Image
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“But love isn't just about feeling good. It's about doing what you don't want to do, over and over again, if it… — Meg Meeker Copy Share Image
the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The little mermaid watch the happy prince with the woman he loves, then she changes into a bubble drifts and disappears into… — The Little Mermaid Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Then, you were always captivated by self-sacrifice. However admirable, your eagerness to give your life over to another person may have been… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and… — H. Richard Niebuhr Copy Share Image
When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Selfishness, hatred, envy, jealousy, greed, self-indulgence, laziness and pride were all anti-life. Love, heroism, self-sacrifice, sympathy, mercy, integrity and creative faith, on… — Ernest Gordon Copy Share Image
True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice… — Adoniram Judson Copy Share Image
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God sacrifices his life, his body and everything he can for us, so don't waste your life, give something to him too. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“They say the only way you can truly kill a Celestra is by fire. I would gladly lend myself to the flames… — Addison Moore Copy Share Image
Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in- To places few others who even do… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my… — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so,… — Obafemi Awolowo Copy Share Image
“From her love, O, reader!--her mother-love, which, if thou wilt observe well, hath this unlikeness to any other love: tender to the… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“Every plant, tree, and animal is a blessing and every person has a purpose for living. Courage, curiosity, and generosity produce noble… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands… — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, faithfulness, joy?… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm not going to lose you, Kaylee. No matter what I have to do, or whom I have to fight. Even if… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Most survivors tend to be the care-giver rather than the care-receiver. We tend to be good at being spouses and parents, anticipating… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“In appropriate sacrifice, the self maintins a solicitude for itself amid caring for others. It also feels a strong connection to other… — Stephanie Golden Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“the impulse toward excessive self sacrifice comes from women's history, not their nature. The reason self-sacrifice seems so natural for women in… — Stephanie Golden Copy Share Image
Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
