136 Quotes About Self-sacrifice

An agenda serves myself, while a conviction serves everyone except myself.

Impacting a life is not so much about what we did for another. Rather, it was more about what we sacrificed in doing it. For the ‘thing’ is certain to fade with time, but the ‘sacrifice’ will be nurtured by it.

Maybe being a hero is deciding to step up on behalf of another at great expense to oneself because that is the essence our humanity. And if such actions are heroic, maybe they are not heroic because we decided to embrace that essence. Rather, maybe they’re heroic because we chose not to reject it.

I think we fear that if we give ourselves away we are certain to lose ourselves in the giving. And I would suggest that you cannot lose yourself in ‘giving yourself away.’ Rather, you lose yourself when you ‘squander’ yourself away.

True heroes know that the most heroic thing about being a hero is not letting anyone else know that you are one.

Love exceeds all other emotions because it dares to take the passion to give oneself to another and turn it into a decision. Therefore, should the feeling of love ever find itself fleeting, the decision to love won’t.

Change requires sacrifice of the self, which by itself is the fulfillment of the self to the being truly desiring for that change to become a reality in the world, but to all others this fulfillment would only appear to be either altruism or self-denial.

The greatest gifts of all create space for the greatest sacrifices imaginable. For if we simply receive something that does not press us to give something in return, we will die fat with possessions but starved of meaning.

If I am not a servant to others, by process of elimination I am then a servant to myself. And that serves no one.