Sacrifice Quotes

• One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Sin
  • Bitter
  • Communism

• Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Honor
  • Sacrifice

• "You were going to sacrifice yourself to save everyone else?" I cringed. Then I wimped out.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Yourself
  • Everyone
  • Save

• I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Sacrifice
  • Word

• You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Sacrifice
  • Individuality

• It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

  

  Clarence Day
  • People
  • Judge
  • Sacrifice

• I think the Iraqis themselves will have to make a determination as to what type of government they ultimately come up with and what kind of nation they ultimately come up with. But they can continually use America's troops presence. The problem is not going to change until they are confronted with the reality that they have to make decisions and they have to make them themselves. They have to decide whether they want a country, whether they're willing to put their lives on the line and sacrifice for a national interest as opposed to a regional or sectarian interest.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Reality

• Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Reason
  • Inspired
  • Leader

• Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Comfort

• The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Country
  • Lying
  • Greatness

• Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Happy
  • Desire
  • Happiness

• Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Jesus
  • Sacrifice
  • Loneliness

• So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count.

  

  General Butt Naked
  • People
  • Blood
  • Soccer

• There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Decision
  • Balance
  • Sacrifice

• Often, when we support the 'right' causes and candidates, we fail to recognize that with progress comes sacrifice. That sacrifice might mean that you are no longer the obvious choice for the job. Your job security may no longer be a given.

  

  Nina Shaw
  • Sacrifice
  • Choice
  • Security

• Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Heart
  • Goal
  • Honest

• If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Sacrifice
  • France
  • Judged

• I'll quit eating meat when you get a cow out here to beat me at a poetry slam. Only so many words rhyme with 'Mooo.' I mean, yes, we're supposed to be better stewards; yes, we're supposed to take care of the earth; yes, we're supposed to honor the sacrifices made by the animals; yes yes yes yes yes, but dammit, we're in charge, and you know why? It's because of these [holding out thumbs]...Maybe you think that carrots are less important than cows. I think they're equal, especially in a sauce.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Mean

• Right now, America doesn't ask us to do anything besides pay taxes. We don't even have to vote. But as psychologists will tell you, when you have to sacrifice for something, you value it more. What about national service for young people? Everybody between 18 and 24 could spend a year or two working for this country in some capacity. It'd be an amazing thing. And it would mix this country racially, culturally, economically.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • People
  • Country
  • Vote

• Sacrifice your life rather than your word.

  

  Stonewall Jackson
  • Life
  • Sacrifice
  • Word

• Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Sacrifice
  • Curiosity
  • Slaves

• It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Sacrifice

• Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs.

  

  George Gilder
  • Giving
  • Wish
  • Birth

• I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Discipline
  • Sacrifice
  • Dedication

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