Top 1200 Self-Sacrifice Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

There is no reward without sacrifice.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

As often as we do good, we sacrifice.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Sacrifice life to truth.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

I know the word 'sacrifice.'

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’

It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

There is no change without sacrifice.

Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.

I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

It's always easier to sacrifice when you're not the one who has to do it.

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need!

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.