Quotes about sacrifice
sacrifice keys support
I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support Alexis de Tocqueville
sacrifice complacency principles
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show with complacency how an enlightened regard for themselves constantly prompts them to assist each other, and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the welfare of the state.
sacrifice men compassion
In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.
sacrifice winning guarantees-that
There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be. Brent Weeks
sacrifice animal monkeys
The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all. Brigid Brophy
sacrifice pay fields
Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible! Brian Tracy
sacrifice parent what-if
No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices. Billie Joe Armstrong
sacrifice self challenges
Obeying the Spirit instead of your own self-centered whims will lead you to places you've never been, challenge you in ways you have never been challenged, and invite levels of sacrifice you never dreamed you could make. This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God. Bill Hybels
sacrifice lovely may
Do what you may, strive as earnestly as you can, live as excellently as you please, make what sacrifices you choose, be as eminent as you can for everything that is lovely and of good repute, yet none of these things can be pleaseing to God unless they be mixed with faith. Charles Spurgeon
sacrifice animal self
The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest. We carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope. Dean Koontz
sacrifice talking iraq
President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq. Dana Milbank
sacrifice world process
It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process. Dan Barber
sacrifice training way
Victorious. I feel that is why I did all the training, why I make the sacrifices, that is why I got into the shape I am in. I feel I have won, that's millions more coming my way, I feel great. Conor McGregor
sacrifice past our-past
We owe it to our past futile sacrifices to continue making further futile sacrifices. Ashleigh Brilliant
sacrifice errors people
We're still benefiting from the sacrifices of people long dead, but we're also suffering from their errors.
sacrifice technology people
The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our society in futile attempts to achieve this security. Bruce Schneier
sacrifice player important
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation. Boris Spassky
sacrifice blow nurse
The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then sacrifices itself and blows away. Antoine Predock
sacrifice boys thinking
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. Barbara Kingsolver
sacrifice cities goal
Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all must he set at naught, that he may enter the Realm of the Spirit, which is the City of God.
sacrifice results martyrdom
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility. Barbara Mertz
sacrifice men challenges
Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality. Ayn Rand
sacrifice self world
The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.
sacrifice rights individual
Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.
sacrifice russia rights
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba, or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent 'rights' of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses.
sacrifice laughing nuance
Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile. Edward Abbey
sacrifice risk suffering
Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking. Atul Gawande
sacrifice offers sacrifice-to-god
As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God. Aristotle
sacrifice iraq political
While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain. Ed Pastor
sacrifice pity
Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice. Elizabeth Bowen
sacrifice able way
Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.
sacrifice self development
Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
sacrifice opportunity men
Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.