Self Sacrifice Quotes
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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child. (Quote by - DAVID GRAYSON)
While no one is expected to leap tall buildings in a single bound, our aspiring heroes will be tested on their courage, integrity, self-sacrifice, compassion and resourcefulness - the stuff of all true superheroes. (Quote by - Stan Lee)
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. (Quote by - Margaret Deland)
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 (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself. (Quote by - William Ellery)
Hers is one of the awards we look back on with great joy and satisfaction. Mother Teresa stands out, in a very positive way, as an example of true self-sacrifice in humanitarian work. She became a symbol to the world. (Quote by - Francis Sejersted)
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. (Quote by - Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
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 we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people. (Quote by - Archibald Rutledge)
For adults and older adolescents, this is a lovely, extraordinarily touching film that conveys an admirable picture of filial devotion, self-sacrifice, faith, good sportsmanship and universal fellowship. (Quote by - Harry Forbes)
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 sense which cramps and restrains our nature. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
It's more about self-sacrifice and less about his charms, and what other women are drawn to, (Quote by - Sienna Miller)
Give unto me, made lowly wise,/ The spirit of self-sacrifice. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
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 think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really. (Quote by - Jeremy Northam)
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. (Quote by - Leigh Hunt)
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. (Quote by - Vladimir Lenin)
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization! (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. (Quote by - King James)
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 pay, but the gold of real service. (Quote by - John Burroughs)
The men and women who have the right ideals are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
It's the same courage and self-sacrifice that our fathers had in World War II and it's beautiful. (Quote by - Benjamin Bratt)
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice. (Quote by - Henry Taylor)
Yet he was such a humble man, certainly never one to brag. Not until I read the book, did I fully understand his accomplishments, his self-sacrifice. (Quote by - Bob Collier)
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 and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. (Quote by - John Foster Dulles)
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice -- and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
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. (Quote by - Morihei Ueshiba)
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
What's good about this is they're setting an example for other teams. There's no superstars, they work hard and are willing to self sacrifice. (Quote by - Sidney Green)
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover. (Quote by - Andrea Dworkin)
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts. (Quote by - Arthur Rimbaud)
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. (Quote by - James Allen)
Self-sacrifice is never entirely unselfish, for the giver never fails to receive. (Quote by - Dolores E. Mcguire)
A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad. (Quote by - Freeman Dyson)
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. (Quote by - Charles DuBois)
