Sacrifice Quotes · Page 105

Some people are just addicted to suffering. They think that it will somehow make them happy at the end when really what…

— Aokigahara29

Our leaders have asked for 'shared sacrifice.' But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends…

— Warren Buffett

You know, for decades, U.S. and R.O.K. service members have fought side-by-side to defend the ideals of freedom. This alliance is founded…

— Lloyd Austin

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is…

— Anonymous

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of…

— Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a…

— Teena Marie

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

As we look at the many problems we face in treating our veterans in a manner befitting their service and sacrifice, it's…

— Chuck Norris

“Stained-glass windows glowed faintly in the moonlight streaming through, illuminating the sculpture of Christ on the cross that hung above the altar.…

— Phillip W. Simpson

And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to…

— Richard Price

The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain…

— Al Gore

“What do you think, Peeta?" I finally ask him. "I think... you still have no idea. The effect you can have." He…

— Suzanne Collins

The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep,…

— Jeanette Winterson

Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Hatred is a bitter, damaging emotion. It winds itself through the blood, infecting its host and driving it forward without any reason.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy,…

— Chris Rock

But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only…

— Gustave Flaubert

Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward -…

— Malcolm X

I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work,…

— Diana Lopez

“what if we individually and collectively committed ourselves to the one thing that is needful—to replicating the loving sacrifice of Calvary to…

— Gregory A. Boyd

Whether It's: Love, Hatred, Happiness, Sadness, Kindness, Evilness, Meanness, Selflessness, Selfishness, Laughing, Lies, Honesty…The More You Give The More You Receive.

— Honeybluntz

“Sacrifice was also in the eye of the beholder. Like beauty, it was a personal, subjective assessment, a cost-benefit analysis that had…

— J.R. Ward

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority…

— Vince Lombardi

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which…

— Edward Dmytryk

“Following Jesus isn’t something you can do at night where no one notices. It’s a twenty-four-hour-a-day commitment that will interfere with your…

— Kyle Idleman

Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil,…

— Shoshana Zuboff

“Alas! that was the greatest of sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the final step to be taken, but he must do…

— Victor Hugo

Its so funny how we set qualifications for the right person to love, while at the back of our minds we know…

— Raina Chapman

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than…

— Anonymous

“This was our rhythm, our worship: give and take, gift and receive, honor and entrust. Making love to this man wasn’t just…

— Rachael Wade

My parents wanted to provide for us so much, so that I could study at school and train and improve as a…

— Miguel Almiron

“Each Failure is like a violent slap across the face with a lecture of waking up and once again striving from the…

— Ricardo Rosales Contreras

With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment of tithes and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Clary gave him what was probably meant as a withering look, but which came out fairly soppy. Jace returned it just as…

— Cassandra Clare

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming…

— Sam Ervin