African Spir Quotes, Hero Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.

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We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Heart Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

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Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

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I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very meager. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for this country and its 90 million people. They want food, fuel and electricity and yearn for a decent life. Any president who does not pay attention to such details or is unable to provide the minimum level of stability should leave office.

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Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Men Quotes

Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Lying Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes

No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Names Quotes

Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Vanity Quotes

I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.

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I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Meat Quotes

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Errors Quotes

Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.

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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

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For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

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There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

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If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.

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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

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