People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“When you love someone completely, you'll do anything to protect them, even if you sacrifice your soul. Because if you don't, you… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
There is no greater sacrifice than giving one's life for their country. Memorial Day allows us to remember our fallen heroes, our… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what… — John Smith Copy Share Image
I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If there are necessary sacrifices to be made for human progress, is it not essential to hold to the principle that those… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work,… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
“to dedicate oneself as a Victim of Love is not to be dedicated to sweetness and consolations; it is to offer oneself… — St. Thérèse de Lisieux Copy Share Image
The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
“The coat was black and drab and obviously purchased for the sake of utility without any thought of fashion. It's the type… — Julie Murphy Copy Share Image
Artemis looked at Holly and felt a tremendous affection for her... he could properly appreciate how fierce and beautiful his best friend… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who… — Jonathan Horton Copy Share Image
Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I've seen temples feed on fear, graves labeled as pride - I've seen nations crowned with glory, yet cruelty inside. But I've… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are… — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
I've always thought my dad was fantastic and now I'm a dad myself I can see what an incredible sacrifice he made… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice — Maryam Jameelah Copy Share Image
“She had finally made the decision to sacrifice herself for the greater good. Then, just like that, she changed her mind, thanks… — Paige McKenzie Copy Share Image
When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the thought… — Samuel Larsen Copy Share Image
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but… — Philo Copy Share Image
Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
Because I knew how hard I worked, I knew the pain, I knew the sacrifice, I knew the tears, I knew everything.… — Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Copy Share Image
A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life isn't always like Chess. But sometimes it is. In a really difficult game, queen leaves board at the end. The difference… — Heshan Udunuwara Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
