Sacrifice Quotes

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In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington… — George Will
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. — John Wooden
Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won't die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I… — Steven Wright
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard. — Ron Wyden
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood. — Philip Yancey
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? — William Butler Yeats
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with… — LZ Granderson
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage. — Tullian Tchividjian
The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement. — Christopher Hitchens
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in… — James A. Baldwin
In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our… — Libba Bray
If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in… — Yann Martel
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. — Mitch Albom
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always… — Dag Hammarskjold
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back. — Peter S. Beagle
But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice! — Bill Watterson
Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty,… — Ron Paul
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only… — Epictetus
In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble. — Starhawk
Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice. — George Eliot

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