Character Quote by Margaret Deland

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

— George Sand

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

— Ayn Rand

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

— Bolesław Prus

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

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

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…

— Eric Hoffer

Virtue is its own punishment.

— Aneurin Bevan

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

— Adela Florence Nicolson

“People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being…

— Michael Pollan

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

— Starhawk

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

— Stefan Zweig

“Many people have sacrificed themselves for others, thinking when they sacrifice themselves they are being a good person. Wrong! To sacrifice yourself can only…

— Rhonda Byrne

“The poet Mark Nepo defines sacrifice as “giving up with reverence and compassion what no longer works in order to stay close to what…

— Arianna Huffington