Definition of Self-Sacrifice
Self-sacrifice
The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.
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Self-Sacrifice Quotations
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Vladimir Lenin
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
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
Eric Hoffer
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.
Jeremy Northam
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
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.
John Foster Dulles
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