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“If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.”

Source: Thoughts

“All of us, single or married, are eternally part of some family-someway, somewhere, somehow-and much of our joy in life comes as we correctly recognize and properly develop those family relationships. We come to this earth charged with a mission: to learn to love and serve one another. To best help us accomplish this, God has placed us in families, for he knows that is where we can best learn to overcome selfishness and pride and to sacrifice for others and to make happiness and helpfulness and humility and love the very essence of our character.”

“To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.”

Ends Sacrifice Selfish Selfishness Being Selfish

Book:Speech in Season

Source: Speech in Season

“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

“Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.”

“When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice.”

Men Self Animal Sacrifice Evolution Selfishness Self Sacrifice

Book:Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life

Source: Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life

“One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.”

Made Sin Sacrifice Century Capitalism Doctrine Bitter Communism Selfishness Irony Pale 20th Century Accusing Callousness

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

Ifs World Way Strong Born Results Break Sacrifice Broken Achievement Great Things Selfishness Small Things Great Achievement Great Sacrifice

Author:Napoleon Hill

“Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.”

Looks Mean Sacrifice Selfish Selfishness Being Selfish Look At Yourself

Author:Herbie Mann

“Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.”

Sacrifice Judgment Selfish Selfishness Tested

Book:Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)

“You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.”

“I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra”

People Liberty Sacrifice Direct Prejudice Misery Prosperity Selfishness Proportion Forefathers Juan Noli Me Tangere

Author:Jose Rizal

“We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin.”

Jesus Sin Sacrifice Divine Filled Selfish Golden Selfishness Daily Life Crowns Divine Love Adoration Gems Unbelief Briars

Book:This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson

Source: This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson

“True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship is exploitation, and freedom from compassion is cruelty.”

Believe Responsibility Compassion Sacrifice Prejudice Tolerance Cruelty Selfishness Cowardice Exploitation Patriot Stewardship

Book:The True Patriot

Source: The True Patriot