In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.
Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
