The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who sacrifices his heart, in silence, for the happiness of others, is indeed the strongest man. — Vesper San Copy Share Image
Fearless people are always ready to die for a cause. Make sure you're fighting for a good cause. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never sacrifice who you are just because someone else has a problem with it. — Varsha Sharma Copy Share Image
“I have made this discovery: that it takes more love and self-sacrifice for the father to give up the son than it… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
For something to achieve we should strive to make things better and be prepared to sacrifice anything in the process including our… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“There was something almost sacred in the self-sacrifice that I felt was required of me as a mother, caring for this child.” — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
My friends are happy. I sacrificed all of my heart, my soul, all my feelings to make them happy. Everything I left… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've seen men who thought they were brave turn out to be shameful cowards. Other people, who thought they were capable of… — Jerzy Andrzejewski Copy Share Image
“You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Rose: A real sacrifice is giving up something you want or enjoy very much, isn't it? Alec: Yes. Rose: Doing it one's… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“If you are trading silence or compliance for love, you are being cheated. When acceptance or love is withheld if you reveal… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
“It has been said that the great things in life are exactly what they seem to be. Such simplicity can be difficult… — Susan Cartwright Copy Share Image
“Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The great human being is a finale; the great age — the Renaissance, for example — is a finale. The genius, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Even when they speak of the need for "meaning and "love," therapists define love and meaning simply as the fulfillment of the… — Phillip Rieff Copy Share Image
If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that… — Francois Coillard Copy Share Image
“St. Vincent and I didn't expect to fall in love. It caught us both unaware." "Yes, but how did you know?" "It… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“The truth, however, is that – to speak only of what I know personally – if I had kept a diary for… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Possessiveness isn’t unprecedented.’ ‘On the contrary – it’s as common as mud. But to recognise it in one’s self and chuck it… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice is not setting oneself up to die. It is liberating oneself to live.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we really love someone we will give them true happiness, even if that happiness means we're not a part of it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All I want for you is to be happy. Even if that means I'll forever have to live without you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
