Self Sacrifice Quotes

124 quotes by 96 authors

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. — Max Beerbohm
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to… — John Burroughs
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready… — Adam Clarke
The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves. — Cesar Chavez
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. — Woodrow Wilson
Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want… — Michael Josephson
In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as… — Russell Simmons
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to… — Ayn Rand
I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which… — Ayn Rand
A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough… — Freeman Dyson
A winner is someone who sets their goals, commits themselves to those goals and then pursues their goals with all the ability that is given… — Leeman Bennett
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me… — William Wordsworth
Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals… — Ordway Tead
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization! — Eric Hoffer
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. — Boris Pasternak
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit… — Andrea Dworkin
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you… — Adam Driver

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