Self Sacrifice Quotes
124 quotes by 96 authors
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
— Max Beerbohm
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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
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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
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The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.
— Cesar Chavez
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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
— Oscar Wilde
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
— Woodrow Wilson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
— Margaret Deland
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How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
— Eric Hoffer
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
— Boris Pasternak
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Self Sacrifice Quotes
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