Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.

There are many ways to serve.

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

Love risks everything and asks for nothing.

If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?

A human’s love. I couldn’t wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to, but humans…humans have a greater capacity for sacrifice for those who live in their hearts. (Aristotle)

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

I'm in the business where I can't ever say there's no risk associated with someone.

Here's to all volunteers, those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay.

We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.

The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice - it's pure and simple.

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

I don't look at me taking risks or if that's going to affect me politically.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.

The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.

Work, my children, work with your whole heart and soul! That is the thing. Mind not the fruit of work. What if you go to hell working for others? That is worth more than to gain heaven by seeking your own salvation... Sri Ramakrishna came and gave his life for the world. I will also sacrifice my life.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.