Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikola Tesla

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

John Ruskin

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Eric Hoffer

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

Eric Hoffer

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Missy Peregrym

I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make.

Misty May-Treanor

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken,

Paulo Coelho

May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

Marjane Satrapi

You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.

Maureen Dowd

The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

Matthew Simpson

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

Maya Angelou

There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

Serj Tankian

Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice.Eloquence belongs, To the conqueror.

Sallust

Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

Russell Simmons

In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as "heat" or "essential energy." The concept is that through a disciplined approach to work and self-sacrifice, Tapas will burn away the negativity that separates us from God. By working our hardest and happily enduring the hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in ourselves.

Ron Paul

In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Roland Barthes

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

Susan Butcher

Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year.

I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad...until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.

Peter Kreeft

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Rabindranath Tagore

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.

Queen Rania of Jordan

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

Lesley Garrett

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

Usain Bolt

My diet is much better. I eat what I have to. The older you get, the better you get at making sacrifices.

Susanna Clarke

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.

Stefan Edberg

I'll play as long as I'm still willing to work this much, to do all these sacrifices

Starhawk

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

Marco Rubio

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

Marc Chandler

It's a great opportunity to lower costs without sacrificing quality. If a retailer is not leveraging this capability, they are certainly missing something.

Shel Silverstein

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.

Natalie Portman

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.