Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

Gloria Allred

There is no change without sacrifice.

Francisco Franco

You must sacrifice every thought, very ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.

Howard Schultz

You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve,

Howard Schultz

People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.

Honore de Balzac

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

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.

Nancy Pelosi

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

Milan Kundera

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

Mick Taylor

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

Jose Rizal

I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra

Jose Marti

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Jorge Luis Borges

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

Joni Eareckson Tada

If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.

Jonathan Tucker

The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Joe Torre

A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good hitter.

John C. Calhoun

Democracy, as I understand it, requires me to sacrifice myself for the masses, not to them. Who knows not that if you would save the people, you must often oppose them?

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.

James May

Never sacrifice your family. They are the most important thing in life.

James Martineau

The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.

Emile M. Cioran

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Ellen Glasgow

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

Ellen Glasgow

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

Hermann Hesse

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

Henry Taylor

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

Ho Chi Minh

It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!

Heather Burns

I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

Hilary Duff

So what are you suggesting?" Grandfather asked. "We find a more acceptable group of people, then bring the Sacrifice to them? How do you propose we find them, a Facebook post? 'Click here to apply for eternal life'?

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.