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self-sacrifice
«Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.»
Author: DAVID GRAYSON
(Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cornfield, cornfields, crowns, desks, factories, hovering, litter, littered, littering, litters, lurking, self-sacrifice, weariness
«A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.»
Author: Freeman Dyson
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
comradeship, indiscriminately, murderous, self-sacrifice
«He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.»
«For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
| Keywords:
currencies, currency, for anything, paper currency, promises, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing
«For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice»
«No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt»
Author: Max Beerbohm
(Wit, Writer)
| About:
Doubt,
Work
| Keywords:
concentration, self-sacrifice, toil
«Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
act, action, Act of, choose, choose up, desire, else, in that, limitation, reject, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, self, sense
«Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.»
«Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| Keywords:
absolute, loyalty, principle, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, The Absolute
«Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Self-sacrifice,
Truth
| Keywords:
crude, potent, readying, self-sacrifice