Nadine Gordimer Quotes

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Who among you will love something more than you love yourself, all right?

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Love is sacrifice.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

There is no rank in sacrifice.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

You may judge for yourselves, without partiality, whether I have not sacrificed my life, my being, every minute of my time in order to make a nation of you.

We are at our best when we give the ultimate sacrifice of putting other people, putting the country, putting our communities ahead of ourselves.

I never sacrificed myself. I did what I did out of love.

In some crazy sort of way, if I died helping a teammate or a friend or someone that I love, I think I could live with it. My family probably couldn't, but I think I could.

I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

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.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

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.

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.