How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

“In appropriate sacrifice, the self maintins a solicitude for itself amid caring for others. It also feels a strong connection to other people. Growing…

— Stephanie Golden

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfulness, not by self-congratulation.

— John Stott

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

— John Stott

“Self-sacrifice is a power issue: inappropriate sacrifice is self-defeating and even destructive because it causes you to lose your power.”

— Stephanie Golden

Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical…

— Paul Tillich

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

— Demosthenes

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each me wishes, that he also believes is true.”

— Demosthenes

The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness…

— Eric Hoffer

“There is even in the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that we call extreme self-seeking is…

— Eric Hoffer

Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily…

— Eric Hoffer

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the…

— Eric Hoffer

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

— Eric Hoffer

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking…

— Eric Hoffer