Quotes
Quotes about Sacrifice
The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.
With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
Self-sacrifice is never entirely unselfish, for the giver never fails to receive.
The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice--no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.
