Sacrifice Quotes

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The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man. — Mahatma Gandhi
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy… — Mahatma Gandhi
Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good? — John F. Kennedy
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. — Eric Hoffer
As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God. — Aristotle
Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from… — Albert Schweitzer
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their… — William Hazlitt
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. — Tom Stoppard
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. — Marya Mannes
A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something… — James Fallows
I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work… — Glenn Close
Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified… — Erwin W. Lutzer
Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good… — Robert Breault
Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you’re sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker… — Jim Carrey
Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that… — Chico Xavier
If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is… — Aldous Huxley
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of… — Aldous Huxley
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the… — Bill Walton
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the… — Charles Caleb Colton
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would… — Andre Gide
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. — Leigh Hunt
Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice. — Elizabeth Bowen
Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ… — Matthew Simpson
I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families… — A. Bartlett Giamatti

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