Quotes with self-sacrifice

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  • Vince Lombardi A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Anita Brookner A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • B. C. Forbes A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Al Goldstein A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • William Cowper A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Simone Weil A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Eric Hoffer A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Ayn Rand Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Aldous Huxley After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Kurt Cobain All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem.
    Rolling Stone Magazine, 16-04-1992
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Andrew Carnegie All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Sheldon Kopp All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
    Sheldon Kopp
    American psychotherapist and author (1929 - 1999)
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  • Sebastian Coe All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
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  • Andrew Cohen Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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