Quotes About Selflessness And Sacrifice

#1. grew increasingly impatient and angry as I compared their selflessness and sacrifice with the self-promotion and selfishness of power-hungry politicians and others - in Baghdad, Kabul, and Washington.

Robert M. Gates

#2. I like to spread myself out. Since I was a kid, I always recognized some void.

Fred Ward

#3. Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Vince Lombardi

#4. ...there is power in self-sacrifice.

Veronica Roth

#5. Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Francis Of Assisi

#6. The noblest life is the one laid down for another.

Jessica Khoury

#7. Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.

Seth Adam Smith

#8. One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

Bertrand Russell

#9. You said it was a sacrifice. Coming from me, it's a gift.

Becky Allen

#10. Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

Henry Rollins

#11. The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.

Criss Jami

#12. People often talk about the pain and degradation of being bullied. No one really talks about the cost. Not that money is more important than those other things, but having to pay the expenses of your own humiliation just rubbed rock salt into the wound.

Lish McBride

#13. Although I'm seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. It is not, in Calvin's view, that we sin because we believe the wrong things; it is, rather, that we believe the wrong things because we sin.

Russell D. Moore

#15. My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.

Chelsea Handler

#16. Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met.

Stephen Kendrick

#17. Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of 'doing' happens every day.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

Ayn Rand

#19. The spirit of sacrifice and selflessness of the defence forces is an inspiration for all Indians. Strong armed forces are necessary for an atmosphere of peace, amity, harmony and brotherhood in the country.

Narendra Modi

#20. The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.

Joyce Banda

#22. Love isn't in body to body contact nor is it in the emotions oozed through tears and weeps. Real love lies in soul to soul connection that you can feel through spiritual practices. Love is boundless and selflessness often we mistake with greedy contentment. Love is give and sacrifice

Sadashivan Nair

#23. Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. So next time your selflessness is praised in front of others, beware: making sacrifices for others makes it easier for them to sacrifice you.

Daniel M. Wegner

#25. We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#26. To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#27. I'm a redneck. And we can wear whatever because we just really don't care about those things. And when you're a redneck named Bubba, you really don't care.

Bubba Watson

#28. I happen to like my balls. They accentuate my cock quite nicely, you know. I'd show you, but well... you've got to earn that first. So pay attention, okay? There's work to do here.

J.M. Darhower

#29. I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

E. O. Wilson

#30. Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#31. They yearn for what they fear for.

Dante Alighieri

#32. Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#33. If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.

Melissa De La Cruz

#34. Jonkonnu if you want to. That was a custom that got started

Sue Monk Kidd

#35. The most benevolent souls are the one's who have had to drink some of life's worst poisons, yet protected others in their lives from ever having to taste them.

Jose N. Harris

#36. If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.

Craig D. Lounsbrough