Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.
It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.
The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.