Sacrifice Quotes
2537 Sacrifice quotes by 1598 unique authors
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Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.
— Dick Morris
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and…
— Bernadette Devlin
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When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge…
— Sun Yat-sen
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We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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The ego is often deeply involved in the desire to help others. If you do not want your ego to be involved in this way,…
— Leonard Jacobson
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Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.
— Nikola Tesla
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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
— G I Gurdjieff
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Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided,…
— Adolf Hitler
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There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
— Stefan Zweig
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The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless of…
— Harrison Salisbury
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Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love,…
— Xunzi
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Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
— Xunzi
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The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of…
— Emiliano Zapata
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Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.
— David W Augsburger
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Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.
— Edmund Leach
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I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.
— Mark Vonnegut
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It was better that a little blood should be shed that much blood should be saved. The blood that was shed was bad blood; the…
— Porfirio Diaz
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the Sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
— Idi Amin
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It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which…
— Stephen Bayley
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Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in…
— Janet Fitch
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We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life…
— LeVar Burton
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The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe…
— Anne Perry
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