Self Sacrifice Quotes
124 quotes by 90 authors
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Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in…
— Obafemi Awolowo
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If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by…
— Unknown Author
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He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in…
— Unknown Author
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice…
— C.S. Lewis
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Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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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
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Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice
— Unknown Author
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All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in his joyless mind…
— George Orwell
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When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
— Ayn Rand
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The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you…
— Samuel Smiles
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While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love…
— David Buss
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I've seen men who thought they were brave turn out to be shameful cowards. Other people, who thought they were capable of the utmost self-sacrifice,…
— Unknown Author
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To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.
— John Stott
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As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our…
— Marianne Williamson
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Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly,…
— Jeanette
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Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.
— Unknown Author
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The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism,…
— Ayn Rand
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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 moral…
— Eric Hoffer
Who Wrote These Self Sacrifice Quotes
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