Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

Mahatma Gandhi

• Pain
• Joy
• Sacrifice

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• Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.

  

  Randy West
  • Game
  • Joy
  • Always

• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Strength

• 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.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Sacrifice

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Joy
  • Talk

• You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Pain

• I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

  

  Sam Ervin
  • Country
  • Remember
  • War

• I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and - at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together - that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Time
  • World
  • Experience

• Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Life
  • World
  • Man

• Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Pain
  • Forever
  • Quitting

• There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Without

• I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Pain
  • Really
  • Highway

• And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Joy

• With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • School
  • Character

• I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had inflicted terrible pain on many nations during the horrific World War II.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• So finger-bang, Pootie Tang/Burger Kang, Gucci Gang, dookie, dang/Charlamagne gonna hate anyway, doesn't matter what I say/Give me Donkey of the Day/What a way for 2018 to get underway/But I'm gonna say everything that I wanna say/Welcome to the slaughterhouse, bitch! (yeah)/Invite 'em in like a One A Day/I'm not done (preach)

  

  Eminem
  • Done
  • Hate
  • Gang

• What thou seest, speak of with caution.

  

  Solon
  • Speak
  • Caution
  • Seest

• Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Sacrifice