Quotes on Sacrifice

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Author: James Allen

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Author: Henri Amiel

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Author: Henri Amiel

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

Author: Gloria Arroyo

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Author: Richard Bach

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Author: Georges Bataille

They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice.

Author: Robert Brady

But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.

Author: Andre Braugher

Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come.

Author: Paul Cellucci

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

Author: Aime Cesaire

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

Author: Brandi Chastain

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Author: Emile Cioran

The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent.

Author: Tom Coburn

We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.

Author: Susan Collins

There is no rank in sacrifice.

Author: Josephus Daniels

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

Author: Charlie Dent

The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.

Author: Hugh Douglas

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

Author: Georges Duhamel

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Author: Tryon Edwards

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

Author: Suzanne Farrell

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Author: William Faulkner

Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Author: Morgan Freeman

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Author: James Froude

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

Author: Richard Gere

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Author: Emma Goldman

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Author: Germaine Greer

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

Author: Kay Gusmao

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

Author: Lasse Hallstrom

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Author: Mia Hamm

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

Author: Victor Hanson

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

Author: Orrin Hatch

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

Author: Auberon Herbert

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

Author: Thor Heyerdahl

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Author: Napoleon Hill

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

Author: John Hood

We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.

Author: Saddam Hussein

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Author: Lee Iacocca

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

Author: Muhammad Jinnah

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Author: Abdul Kalam

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

Author: Richard King

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

Author: Stanislaw Lec

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Author: Dan Lipinski

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

Author: Herbie Mann

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

Author: Thomas Meagher

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

Author: Jeff Miller

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

Author: Slobodan Milosevic

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.

Author: Frederica Montseny

In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

Author: Frederica Montseny

It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.

Author: Alva Noto

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

Author: Trevor Nunn

Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.

Author: John Otto

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

Author: Pope Paul II

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Author: Ross Perot

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

Author: Steve Prefontaine

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Author: Ayn Rand

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

Author: Tim Robbins

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

Author: Zack Rocha

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Author: Muriel Rukeyser

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Author: John Ruskin

Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.

Author: John Salazar

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

Author: Edward Sapir

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.

Author: Nassau Senior

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Author: George Shaw

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

Author: Nigel Short

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 and made an heir of heaven.

Author: Matthew Simpson

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

Author: Boris Spassky

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

Author: Gwen Stefani

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.

Author: Wilhelm Steinitz

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

Author: Jalal Talabani

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

Author: Tom Tancredo

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Author: Henry Taylor

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

Author: Christy Turlington

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

Author: Voltaire

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

Author: Henry Wallace

This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.

Author: Jim Walsh

I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.

Author: Zach Wamp

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

Author: Dennis Weaver

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 so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

Author: George Will

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

Author: William Yeats

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Author: Maharishi Yogi

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

Author: Stefan Zweig

You can't spell success without sacrificing something along the way

Author: Jasmine Carter

Heavy is the head that wears the crown but powerful is the heart that lifts it.

Author: William Shakespeare

A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something else in return. But once you have, you will gain at the expense of a foolish demand.

Author: Edward Elric