Good morning and welcome to another edition of “Wisdom Wednesday”. Each week I will post motivational quotes on various different virtues. My intent is to create a reference for you to turn to when you feel you need a little motivation on a particular virtue.
Last week’s virtue was tact. This week’s virtue is the wonderful virtue of self-sacrifice. Self-sacrifice is offering up of oneself for the good of others.
Sacrificing your life for another human being is conceivably the most heroic act you can do in your lifetime. A true self-sacrifice builds upon the dignity of others. This is why suicide bombers are not performing a self-sacrificial act. The strength of true self-sacrifice is the essential spirit of a person, and not simply the consequence of events you have motivated yourself to make an effort to do.
Here are ten quotes that express just that, because sometimes you need to know a life of service does, indeed, continue to exist.
10 Wisdom Wednesday/Virtue Quotes: Self-Sacrifice
1. “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
I have shuddered at it,
I shudder no more.
I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion
and I could die for that.
I could die for you.
My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.”
― John Keats
2. “The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.”—Theodore Roosevelt
3. “You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.”― Kris Vallotton
4. “Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”— Mahatma Gandhi
5. “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.”—John Burroughs
6. “Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.”—Morihei Ueshiba
7. “The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”—T. S. Eliot
8. “Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.”—Angela Kinsey
9. “Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”—Woodrow Wilson
10. “Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meditation/Betty’s Verse Of The Day/4-9-14
