Sacrifice Quotes

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness, Health, Greatest

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
James Allen

Achieve, Accomplish, Greatly

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
William Butler Yeats

Heart, Long, May

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
Lee Iacocca

Best, Trying, Honest

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.
Chris Christie

Today, Country, Challenge

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Pain, Order, Pleasure

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
Tim Pawlenty

Women, Men, History

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin

Simple, Place, Difficult

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards

Good, Hope, Another

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
William Barclay

Love, Face, Christ

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Women, Freedom, America

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
Lou Holtz

Successful, Find, Making

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Important, Moment, Become

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
Pope John Paul II

Great, Wealth, Christ

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
Charlie Dent

Freedom, May, Through

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak

Love, Happiness, Feeling

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
Patti Smith

Good, Difficult, Idea

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.
Ross Perot

Country, Stand, Water

I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.
Kim Kardashian

Heart, Stunt, Publicity

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
Nigel Short

Good, Confused, Sound

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
Jesse Jackson

Greed, America, Young

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Good, Great, Separated

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
Bruce Barton

Men, Die, Liberty

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
J. K. Rowling

Business, Nothing, Writing

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
Katy Perry

Life, Love, Time

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Freedom, Suffering, Nation

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
Tom Stoppard

Future, Worth, Attention

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
Laurence Olivier

Love, Time, Today

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Great, Team, Group

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.
Vera Wang

Life, Done, Getting

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