Self-sacrifice Quotes

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do t...

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

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

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

We could see that our mothers blackmailed us with self-sacrifice, even if we did not know whether or...

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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

I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved s...

I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudde...

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can gi...

One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a g...

How far should a person go in the name of true love?

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions we...

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

At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that consci...

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may...

If the Emperor had not delivered his [15 August 1945] address urging the Japanese people to lay down...