Sacrifice Quotes
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A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I understand why war is not popular, but I also know this: The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. That's why NATO continues to be indispensable. That's why we must strengthen U.N. and regional peacekeeping, and not leave the task to a few countries.
Barack Obama
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Those things that are precious are saved only by sacrifice.
David Kenyon Webster
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A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.
Sarojini Naidu
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Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it.
Davy Crockett
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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
Khalil Gibran
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No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
Daniel Berrigan
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I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.
Anita Baker
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The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.
George Gilder
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The body without soul is no longer at the sacrifice. At the day of death it come to rebirth. The divine spirit will make the soul rejoice seeing the eternity of the world.
Nostradamus
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Being a mom was a full-time job. I was never willing to sacrifice everything for my career.
Patty Smyth
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I was a rapper. The reason I stopped rapping was because I realized that people wanted guys like Puff Daddy. That's not what I do. I quit. That was it. I had to sacrifice for my choice. I said, 'Forget it. I'll be a producer.' Nobody was going to make me do anything.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility
Haile Selassie
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Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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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.
Alva Noto
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The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!
Fanny Burney
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There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?
Edith Schaeffer
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Margaret Deland
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Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering pouredAvails; no altars hath he, nor is soothedBy hymns of praise. From him alone of allThe powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus
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There is no change without risk, and no progress without sacrifice, and no freedom without solidarity.
Barack Obama
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I stand here today - in the shadow of my parents' and grandparents' accomplishments - because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future.
David Ige
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A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
Jalal Talabani
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Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
Barack Obama
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When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
C. S. Lewis