136 Quotes About Self-sacrifice

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

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

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.

Martyrdom, the fanaticism of being willing to die for one's beliefs, is the essential ingredient in making others want to follow the code left behind by that sacrificial example.

Most survivors tend to be the care-giver rather than the care-receiver. We tend to be good at being spouses and parents, anticipating our loved ones needs, going the second mile when it came to self sacrifice. But seldom can we ask our loved ones to give to us. We fool ourselves into believing we don’t need much.

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

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.