He is next to Tolstoy in his willingness to give himself for his kind; if he would rather give himself in fighting than in suffering wrong, I do not know that his
self-sacrifice is less in degree.
He was a quiet, modest fellow, unmistakably impressed by the knowledge of the officer and the heroic
self-sacrifice of the merchant and saying nothing about himself.
Some of those boys came straight from the cornfields with only a summer's wages in their pockets, hung on through the four years, shabby and underfed, and completed the course by really heroic
self-sacrifice. Our instructors were oddly assorted; wandering pioneer school-teachers, stranded ministers of the Gospel, a few enthusiastic young men just out of graduate schools.
The motto of woman is
Self-sacrifice. You sha'n't see how you distress me.
At a time of such love, such rapture, and such
self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels and affronts matter?
The Capital of Bornou.--The Islands of the Biddiomahs.--The Condors.--The Doctor's Anxieties.--His Precautions.--An Attack in Mid-air.--The Balloon Covering torn.--The Fall.--Sublime
Self-Sacrifice.--The Northern Coast of the Lake.
Because he felt so keenly the beauty of faith, because the desire for
self-sacrifice burned in his heart with such a gem-like glow, his strength seemed inadequate to his ambition.
Car owners should instill
self-sacrifice just to put an end to this perennial problem.
The leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics emphasised the importance of mothers and their virtues of
self-sacrifice and compassion in "today's fragmented world, where we risk losing our bearings." "A world that looks to the future without a mother's gaze is short-sighted," the pope said.
Both of them call for courage, dedication and
self-sacrifice; but the moment of fulfilment, being the more crucial, call for much higher order of these attributes.
The CM said Hajj and Eid-ul-Azha are two obligations which are based on the spirit of
self-sacrifice.
Works of Love in a World of Violence: Feminism, Kierkegaard, and the Limits of
Self-Sacrifice