Self Sacrifice Quotes

124 Self Sacrifice quotes by 90 unique authors

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. — George Bernard Shaw
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. — Morihei Ueshiba
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz
In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble. — Starhawk
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in… — Leo Tolstoy
Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because they were mine!"… — Douglas Adams
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when… — Eric Hoffer
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and… — H.G. Wells
Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember. — Eric S. Nylund
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him… — Nikolai Gogol
the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the… — Ann Aguirre
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. — Ayn Rand
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs… — Ayn Rand
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you. — Karl Lagerfeld
...there is power in self-sacrifice. — Veronica Roth
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on… — Oscar Wilde
When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than… — Tobias Wolff
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape… — Peter Kreeft
Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your… — Ayn Rand
Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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