Self Sacrifice Quotes

• A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Inspiring, Veterans Day

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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• There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

  Adoniram Judson

  Inspirational, Success, Sacrifice

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• Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

  Napoleon Hill

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.273, Penguin

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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 pay, but the gold of real service.

  John Burroughs

  Love, Life, Motivational

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.239, Syracuse University Press

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• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Kindness, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

  Paul David Tripp

  Sacrifice, Love Is, Self

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• Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

  Honore de Balzac

  Happiness, Sacrifice

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.109, 谷月社

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• The most sublime act is to set another before you.

  William Blake

  Sacrifice, Sublime

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.316, Pearson Education

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• A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  "Songs of the Soul". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Sacrifice, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.127, Harvard University Press

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• True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.

  Rick Joyner

  Sacrifice, Christianity, Lord

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from May 24, 2015

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• 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 love.

  Peter Kreeft

  Sacrifice, Self, Giving

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• Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.

  Napoleon Hill

  Sacrifice, Self, Giving

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.179, Courier Corporation

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• Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Loyalty, Heart, Mean

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.142, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

  Henry Taylor

  Sacrifice, Self, Essence

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.13

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• Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

  Tim Hetherington

  Mean, Sacrifice, Brotherhood

  "Transcript: ABC News' Martha Raddatz Interviews Tim Hetherington". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. September 14, 2010.

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• The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Sacrifice, Feels

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Self

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.67, Shambhala Publications

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• To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Sacrifice, Self, True Joy

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• Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspiration, Giving, Charity

  "Song of Myself " l. 994 (written 1855)

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• Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.

  George W. Bush

  Memories, Loss, Sacrifice

  The World Will Always Remember 9/11, delivered 11 December 2011

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• No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

  Max Beerbohm

  Work, Sacrifice, Self

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

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• We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

  Adam Clarke

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Self

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• 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

  Sports, Loyalty, Sacrifice

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.67, Shambhala Publications

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