Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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.
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.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbours between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.
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.
... He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.
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.
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminatingly 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...
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
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