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• Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Sacrifice, Men

  Charles Dickens (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.143, Top Five Books LLC

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• ...there is power in self-sacrifice.

  Veronica Roth

  Sacrifice, Self, Selflessness

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• You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sacrifice, Simple, Self

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.131, Penguin

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• Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Men

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• Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Happiness, Selfish, Love Yourself

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• A winner is someone who sets their goals, commits themselves to those goals and then pursues their goals with all the ability that is given to them. That requires someone who beleives in themselves, who will make self sacrifices, work hard, and maintain the determination to perform at the best of their ability.

  Leeman Bennett

  Inspirational, Running, Determination

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• Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual personality than is true of a national purpose of a totalitarian state under a dictator.

  Ordway Tead

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

  Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 138, 1950.

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• Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

  Boris Pasternak

  Spiritual, Art, Sacrifice

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• Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Mean, Sacrifice

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

  John Stott

  Christian, Sacrifice, Self

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• 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.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Love, Integrity, Sacrifice

  "Our blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Death, Twilight, Way

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• What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because they were mine!" said Ford, crossly. I think we have different value systems." Well mine's better.

  Douglas Adams

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Self

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.130, Pan Macmillan

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• It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.

  Jane Goodall

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Compassion

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• And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice, will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.

  Alan Lightman

  Letting Go, Falling In Love, Memories

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.46, Vintage

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• Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Hate, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.69, Penguin

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• When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than a common murderer, who at least cuts your throat himself, without persuading YOU to do it.

  Tobias Wolff

  Cutting, Sacrifice, Self

  Tobias Wolff (2003). “Old School: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Grief, Sacrifice, Reality

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• My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Self, Murder

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works”

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• "I'm not going to lose you, Kaylee. No matter what I have to do, or whom I have to fight. Even if that means quashing your vexing tendencies toward self-sacrifice."
  "Did you just say 'vexing'?" Nash asked.
  Tod scowled. "Nothing else seemed to fit. I stand by my word choice."

  Rachel Vincent

  Mean, Fighting, Sacrifice

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, 2011.

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

  Starhawk

  Sacrifice, Self, Culture

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• We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.95, tredition

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• The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leadership, Believe, Sacrifice

  "The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements" by Eric Hoffer, (p. 111), 1951.

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• Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

  Leigh Hunt

  Acceptance, Sacrifice, Greatness

  "Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift".

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• Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do

  Michael Josephson

  Sacrifice, Self, Differences

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