Henry Newbolt Quotes

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

We seek no profit, we covet no territory or aggrandizement. We expect no reward and we will accept no compromise.

Each had done more good than forty men would or could have.

Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view -- which scorns virtue and altruism -- regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heroes who do honor to humanity..

There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.

Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.

Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.

I am certainly not a martyr kind of a person. I love my life. But if one has to, then there is nothing more nobler a cause that I can think of.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

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

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

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.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

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

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

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.