James Anthony Froude Quotes

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

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

If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve

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

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.

He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals as its individual self, choose to give up its life in aid of someone else?

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.

The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions of men and women with some sort of Humanist philosophy who have consciously given up their lives for a social ideal.

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.