If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
Best Sacrifice Quotes to Inspire Your Selfless Acts - page 30
A great man is always willing to be little.
Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity
Gaston Rebuffat
Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.
George A. Sheehan
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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven.
The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.
If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our colleagues.
Jerzy Kukuczka
I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
Witold Gombrowicz
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
Robert Staughton Lynd
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Ram Dass
Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
Katey Sagal
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away
Helen Steiner Rice
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No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.