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
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. - George Bernard Shaw
We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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. - Morihei Ueshiba
Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice. - Ron Brackin
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. - John Foster Dulles
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. - Max Beerbohm
The three great acts are love, goodness and self-sacrifice. - Lailah Gifty Akita
self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton