Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terri Sewell

Im benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

Terence McKenna

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

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.

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.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

Sam Worthington

Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it?

Ronald Reagan

We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause.

Ronald Reagan

As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will not surrender for it - now or ever.

Robert Jeffress

The willingness of God to sacrifice his Son to reconcile us to himself is a demonstration of his love for us.

Robert Jeffress

Abel's sacrifice was accepted by God because it was made according to God's instructions. Cain, however, tried to approach God in his own way and was rejected by God (Genesis 4:3-5). From that point on, Cain became a symbol of those who try to approach God on their own terms.

Tom Morello

Sacrifice and neon lights slave ships don't wait. Love many, trust few, and don't be late

Tom Coburn

I'm disappointed . . . that the president has not done more to demand that Congress and other federal agencies make the same sacrifices millions of Americans are already making. There is no charity without sacrifice.

Tom Coburn

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice

Tim Ferriss

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

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.

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.

Tony Parsons

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

Simone de Beauvoir

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

Simone Weil

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

Simon Sinek

Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.

Simon Sinek

We call them leaders because they go first, because they take the risk before anybody else does, because they will choose to sacrifice so their people will be safe and protected,

Simon Sinek

A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers.

Simon Sinek

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.

Simon Sinek

Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.