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About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

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)

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