Leo Tolstoy Quotes about Sacrifice

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Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

Leo Tolstoy

Sacrifice, Vanity, Ease

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.211, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Leo Tolstoy

Sacrifice, Movement, Chance

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.50, Oxford University Press, USA

All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

Leo Tolstoy

Grief, Sacrifice, Reality

True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

Leo Tolstoy

Art, Sacrifice, Two

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “On the Significance of Science and Art”, p.65, The Floating Press