Sacrifice Quotes

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

  

  Michael Caine
  • Sacrifice
  • Individuality

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

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Yourself
  • Everyone
  • Save

• We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.

  

  Rick Perry
  • School
  • Education
  • Students

• 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

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

  

  Clarence Day
  • People
  • Judge
  • Sacrifice

• 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

• When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Victory
  • Sacrifice

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Decision
  • Balance
  • Sacrifice

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

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Jesus
  • Sacrifice
  • Loneliness

• 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

• 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

• Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Sacrifice
  • Curiosity
  • Slaves

• 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

• Sacrifice your life rather than your word.

  

  Stonewall Jackson
  • Life
  • Sacrifice
  • Word

• 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

• 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

• I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.

  

  Neil Abramson
  • Believe
  • Action
  • Purpose

• Israelis are wrong in not looking for a change in the relationship with the United States that would put it more in perspective - that we are the great power, they are the minor power. I don't think there are a great many American parents who will want to sacrifice their soldiers and children so Israel can maintain the West Bank. When that becomes clear, I think Israel's days are numbered as an ally that is never questioned or criticized.

  

  Michael Scheuer
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Power

• Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Prayer

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