Self-Sacrifice Quotes
77 quotes by 67 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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
— Joseph Campbell
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
— William Ellery Channing
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Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.
— Tom Krause
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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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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
— Margaret Deland
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Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear
— Susie Bright
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
— Eric Hoffer
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My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I…
— Jeremy Northam
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Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.
— Angela Kinsey
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Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth
— Eric Hoffer
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism…
— John Foster Dulles
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
— Vladimir Lenin
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who Wrote These Self-Sacrifice Quotes
67 authors contributed a total of 77 Self-Sacrifice Quotes, led by these top contributors: