Sacrifice Quotes

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It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to… — John Henry Newman
Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice. — Pietro Metastasio
Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. — William Shakespeare
Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together… — Eric Hoffer
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness… — Eric Hoffer
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth — Eric Hoffer
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to… — Eric Hoffer
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a… — Eric Hoffer
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for… — Marcel Proust
By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others. — David Lloyd George
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the… — Leigh Hunt
I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business. — Mason Cooley
In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income. — Jean Rostand
This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form... — Martin Buber
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs… — Simone Weil
A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice. — Isaac Watts
The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. — Morihei Ueshiba
The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to… — Ludwig von Mises
Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins… — Sathya Sai Baba
Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice... — Sathya Sai Baba
To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things. — Robert Henri
All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet… — Clement Greenberg

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