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The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights.

~ Ron Pearce

Ron Pearce Anger Rights Self Sacrifice Temper

Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough First Greed Human Human Nature Necessity Sacrifice Self Centered Self Sacrifice Selfish

Sometimes love is not enough.

~ Sarah Maclean

Sarah Maclean Choices Love Sacrifices Self Sacrifice

Courtship is driven by hormones, marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.

~ Ron Brackin

Ron Brackin Courtship Hormones Humility Marriage Self Sacrifice

A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman Anxiety Goal Setting Motivation Self Sacrifice

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

~ Kris Vallotton

Kris Vallotton Inspirational Love Sacrifice Self Sacrifice

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Addiction Competition Lose Lose Everything Obsession Sacrifice Self Sacrifice Win

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

Criss Jami Bravery Courage Fear Love Sacrifice Self Sacrifice Selflessness

I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.

~ Esther Dalseno

Esther Dalseno Sacrifice Self Sacrifice Unrequited Love Want Wisdom

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 others to consider. Everyone can't be, someone.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau Face Your Fears Choice Forfeit Forgo Greater Good Intense Sacrifice Sake Self Sacrifice Serious Spite Stoicism

Amin, you’re not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don’t believe in the salvation of others?

~ Yasmina Khadra

Yasmina Khadra Sacrifice Sacrifice For Others Self Sacrifice

What's a man worth without love ? $.89 worth of chemicals. Hawkeye Pierce

~ M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team Discipleship Materialism Ministry Mortality Self Sacrifice

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Timothy J. Keller Discipleship Self Sacrifice

The generation of American men who fought the Second World War were too struck by the scale of the effort – and the stakes of the effort – to see the war as a stage for their own personal heroism. Most men seem to have taken the lesson that there's enough honor in doing a hard job when you have to.

~ Jeremy Rabkin

Jeremy Rabkin Civic Duty Discipleship Self Sacrifice Teamwork

It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don't have to do it all alone. We should practice on the small stuff so that we will be better able to stand together for what we believe and for what we love, who may someday need our support.

~ Megan Mckenna

Megan Mckenna Discipleship Self Sacrifice

You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?

~ Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer Bella Swan Breaking Dawn Motherhood Self Sacrifice

- in the end she felt pity for me, for the lost man. And when a girl's heart is moved to pity, that is, of course, most dangerous for her. She's sure to want to save him then, to bring him to reason, to resurrect him, to call him to nobler aims, to regenerate him into a new life and new activity. Well, everyone knows what can be dreamt up in that vein. I saw at once that the bird was flying into my net on its own.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Love Hurts Pity Self Sacrifice

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, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!

~ Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo Conscience Righteousness Self Sacrifice Truth

As empaths, one of the quickest ways to completely losing our grounding in reality is by deferring our needs and wants in relationships.

~ Mateo Sol

Mateo Sol Caring For Others Emotional Intelligence Empath Empaths Highly Sensitive People Intuition Self Sacrifice Sensitivity

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

~ Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult Right Self Sacrifice Wrong

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

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman Materialism Mercenaries Patriotism Self Sacrifice

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen Charity Giving Self Sacrifice

The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point, to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.

~ Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell Hero Hero With A 1000 Faces Hero With A Thousand Faces Heroism Joseph Campbell Self Sacrifice

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

~ David Halberstam

David Halberstam Caution Risk Safety Self Sacrifice

Giving yourself is the ultimate revolution.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Bryant Mcgill Patriotism Self Sacrifice

For I was sure of one thing, it wasn't always the hero who saved the world. It was the person most willing to die first.

~ R.k. Ryals

R.k. Ryals Heroes Self Sacrifice

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Ministry Mortality Self Sacrifice
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