Self Sacrifice Quotes

Karl Lagerfeld

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

John Keats

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion-
I have shuddered at it,
I shudder no more.
I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion
and I could die for that.
I could die for you.
My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

Wendell Berry

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Nicholas Sparks

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

Chelsea Handler

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.

Honoré De Balzac

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

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the hay...she missed out on all that...like me, her son...a lifetime of sacrifice!...the woman who can grunt and rave in the throes of a deep fuck can die happy...

Ron Brackin

Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.

Rick Riordan

Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.

Barbara W. Tuchman

A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit.

Addison Moore

They say the only way you can truly kill a Celestra is by fire. I would gladly lend myself to the flames to peer down eternally over this sinful disgrace of a planet that houses cowards such as these.

Jodi Picoult

I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces.

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