I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political career of my husband
- Pat NixonSelf-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow
- Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I`m sure she`s a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what`s in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts.
- Arthur RimbaudThe important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Maharishi Mahesh YogiCrude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth
- Eric HofferGetting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.
- Tom KrauseOnly to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self`s actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
- Viktor FranklUndoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself
- William Ellery Channing