Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josephus Daniels

There is no rank in sacrifice.

Joseph Campbell

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.

John Maynard Keynes

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. All of us, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards, are now primarily interested in preserving the stability of business, prices, and employment, and are not likely, when the choice is forced on us, deliberately to sacrifice these to outworn dogma, which had its value once, of 3 pounds, 17 shill ings, 10 1/2 pence per ounce. Advocates of the ancient standard do not observe how remote it now is from the spirit and the requirements of the age. A regulated nonmetallic standard has slipped in unnoticed. It exists.

John Lennon

We gave up everything just to sit at your table.

John le Carre

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

George Matthew Adams

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

Elizabeth Goudge

I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

Elizabeth Gilbert

Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.

Judith Jamison

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

Karen McCarthy

I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

Karen Kingsbury

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

Joseph de Maistre

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

Karlie Kloss

I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven't had to sacrifice anything.

Le Corbusier

Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.

John D. Rockefeller

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

Gayle Forman

Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.

Lucas Neff

When we make jokes about being lazy, or things that look like we're lazy parents, we don't want to make it appear like we're not also incredibly hardworking people when it comes to striving at our vocational things. I do think it's a conversation, but a lot of times, you make sacrifices for the sake of jokes, or for the sake of a scene.

Lucian

For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this - to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse.

Louis Auchincloss

Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

Mahatma Gandhi

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.

Mahatma Gandhi

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

Mahatma Gandhi

I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

French Montana

The hardest challenge I'm facing is just balancing my family with the industry. It's kind of like, you gotta stay out there doing your thing, doing whatever and it takes you away from your family. So it's hard to balance it out but once you get it, it's a lifestyle. You got to sacrifice to do what it is you want.

Julie Kagawa

I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

Joseph Goebbels

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

Joshua L. Liebman

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic adult sins; when he postpones immediate pleasures for the sake of long-term values.... Our generation must be inspired to search for that maturity which will manifest itself in the qualities of tenacity, dependability, co-operativeness and the inner drive to work and sacrifice for a nobler future of mankind.

Julius Wellhausen

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.