Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sacrifice? ... At this time, there is none.

They sacrificed a lot for us down the stretch. There was a lot of selflessness on this team.

Hans Frank

It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You have the potential to become anything to which you set your mind. You have a mind and a body and a spirit. With these three working together, you can walk the high road that leads to achievement and happiness. But this will require effort and sacrifice and faith.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Church expects that each of us carry a share of the burden of leadership. There is no paid clergy. The work is done because of a love of the cause. And as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

Gordon B. Hinckley

. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Sacrifice is the very essence of religion; ... Without sacrifice there is no true worship of God.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Just as our Redeemer gave His life as a vicarious sacrifice for all men, and in so doing became our Savior, even so we, in a small measure, when we engage in proxy work in the temple, become as saviors to those on the other side.

Georgette Heyer

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!

Henry David Thoreau

The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but last fruits also.

Henry David Thoreau

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

Ernest Hemingway

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Ezra Klein

The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.

Fidel Castro

I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Helen Keller

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

Catharine Beecher

We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!

James G. Frazer

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

James G. Frazer

For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

Iyanla Vanzant

When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.

Georges Bataille

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

George Sand

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

George Sand

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

Jefferson Davis

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

Jesse Jackson

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

Jeff Foxworthy

Sacrificing myself to kill Hilary Clinton was the best thing I could possibly do for humanity

Jada Pinkett Smith

What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.

Christopher Hitchens

The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.

Chris Hemsworth

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

George Washington

A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle... Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.

George Santayana

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

G. H. Hardy

Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well, and the number of men who can do two things well is negligible. If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.