Cardinals Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

— Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Why does it always have to be that way? Why do good men always have to sacrifice themselves for others? Because they believe that…

— Siri Mitchell

“the impulse toward excessive self sacrifice comes from women's history, not their nature. The reason self-sacrifice seems so natural for women in Western culture…

— Stephanie Golden

A man is not capable of giving the way a woman gives. She is stronger. When a woman sacrifices, it lends her grace and…

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.

— Eric Metaxas

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

— Bolesław Prus

It's amazing how selfless we are when we sacrifice something we want to do for the person we love.

— Anonymous

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

— James G. Frazer