George Herbert Quotes

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.

The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.

Hanajima: To truly love someone is to always put thier feelings before your own...No matter what.

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?