Top Self Sacrifice Quotes

The goddess smiled. You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn. When Dionysus was made a god, I gave up my throne for him. It was the only way to avoid...

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 compl...

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.

Someone has to be stoic, for the sake of, in spite of, and in the face of all those who are, not. Someone, has to be serious. Someone has to choose to forgo choice, so that there is an option left for...

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Rise up oh heart, for there is another battle to win.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion.Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could di...

Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue....

At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, plan...

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

He had grown so accustomed to feeling tired that he took a certain pleasure in it, the pleasure of someone who has given up, the pleasure of someone who, when the moment of truth arrives, turns back t...

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

Everybody knows basically what is right and what is wrong. Everybody knows better than to hate others. In fact, most people teach against it, and yet we still see it on the daily. But why do you think...

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