Anna Howard Shaw Quotes

When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Love only serves and does not calculate.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

Good Soldiers don't sacrifice the cause for love - Lucas If the cause isn't love then it isn't worth the sacrifice

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

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.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.