Synonyms for self-sacrifice
self-sac·ri·fice

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1. self-sacrifice

   Self-control is holding oneself within due limits in pleasures and duties, as in all things else; self-denial, the giving up of pleasures for the sake of duty. Self-renunciation surrenders conscious rights and claims; self-abnegation forgets that there is anything to surrender. There have been devotees who practised very little self-denial with very much self-renunciation. A mother will care for a sick child with complete self-abnegation, but without a thought of self-denial. Self-devotion is heart-consecration of self to a person or cause with readiness for any needed sacrifice. Self-sacrifice is the strongest and completest term of all, and contemplates the gift of self as actually made. We speak of the self-sacrifice of Christ, where any other of the above terms would be feeble or inappropriate.

   Synonyms:
   self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-devotion, self-immolation, self-renunciation

   Antonyms:
   self-gratification, self-indulgence, self-seeking, self-will, selfishness

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1. selflessness, self-sacrificenoun

   acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity

   Synonyms:
   altruism, selflessness

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1. • Cooperation

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1. List of paraphrases for "self-sacrifice":

   selflessness, sacrifice, self-denial, dedication

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1. John Foster Dulles:

   The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

2. The Heathrow Pause group:

   This is a symbolic action, using a legal loophole and participants' self-sacrifice to draw attention to the most serious and urgent crisis humanity has ever faced, the government's inaction on climate change, and the looming catastrophe of airport expansion, gives us no choice and compels us to act.

3. George Bernard Shaw:

   Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

4. Andrea Dworkin:

   Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

5. John Burroughs:

   For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.