There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
~By Nadine Gordimer ~
We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.
~By Nick Lampson ~
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
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.
~By Andre Braugher ~
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.
~By Omar Bongo ~
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
~By Alma Gluck ~
Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
~By Sargent Shriver ~
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
~By Timothy Pawlenty ~
I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!
~By James McAvoy ~
We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
~By Dennis Weaver ~
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
~By Ernest Istook ~
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
~By Noah Webster ~
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
~By Margaret Deland ~
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.
~By Tom Coburn ~
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
~By Herbie Mann ~
The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
Our private property must be sacrificed.
~By Dolley Madison ~
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?
~By Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao ~
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
~By Franz Liszt ~
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
~By Jeff Miller ~
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
~By Kemal Ataturk ~
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
~By Thomas Francis Meagher ~
Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.
~By Robert Smith ~
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
~By Siegfried Sassoon ~
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
~By William Barclay ~
God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.
~By George A. Smith ~
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.
~By Susan Collins ~
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
~By Jason Kidd ~
Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
~By John Burroughs ~
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.
~By Zack de la Rocha ~
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.
~By Michael McCaul ~
I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
~By Karen McCarthy ~
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
~By Barack Obama ~
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.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.
~By Bill Shuster ~
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.
~By Auberon Herbert ~
People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.
~By Len Wein ~
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
~By Voltaire ~
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
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.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.
~By Bulent Ecevit ~
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
~By Henry Miller ~
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
~By Maria W. Chapman ~
A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
~By Nigel Short ~
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
~By Charles Farrar Browne ~
You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.
~By Mariska Hargitay ~
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed.
~By Pauline Frederick ~
Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.
~By Zack Wamp ~
My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.
~By Egon Schiele ~
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
~By John Buford ~
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
~By Mario Vargas Llosa ~
Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.
~By Jerry Brown ~
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.
~By John B. Hood ~
For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.
~By Steve Buyer ~
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.
~By Alva Noto ~
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.
~By Joe Barton ~
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
~By Emma Goldman ~
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
~By Bob Riley ~
My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.
~By Tim Robbins ~
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
~By Humphry Davy ~
A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
~By James Allen ~
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
~By Aaliyah ~
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
~By Dean Kamen ~
I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
~By Aaliyah ~
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.
~By Saddam Hussein ~
There is no rank in sacrifice.
~By Josephus Daniels ~
My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
~By Alexandra Kosteniuk ~
The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy.
~By Ben Nelson ~
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.
~By Gwen Stefani ~
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.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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.
~By Charlie Dent ~
The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
~By Larry Flynt ~
Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
~By Sai Baba ~
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.
~By Victor Davis Hanson ~
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
~By Rick Santorum ~
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
~By Germaine Greer ~
Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
~By Xun Zi ~
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
~By Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ~
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
~By Betty Dodson ~
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