Sacrifice Quotes

In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George Will

Political, Means, Word

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, Everything, Done

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
Henry A. Wallace

Democracy, Effort, Growing

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Jose Marti

Life, Death, Instinct

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer

Freedom, Betray, Measure

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Florence Nightingale

Death, Put, Her

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Emile M. Cioran

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
Charles de Gaulle

Death, Humanity, Possible

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
Aaliyah

Work, Put, Either

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
Dave Reichert

Family, Time, Knowledge

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
Natalie Portman

Life, Important, Someone

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Great, Passion, Law

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Rest, Generation, Salvation

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Emma Goldman

Freedom, Political, Human

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Hermann Hesse

Happiness, Smile, Woman

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.
Chris Christie

Time, Crisis, Selfish

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.
David Duchovny

Making, Loss, Privacy

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.
Aime Cesaire

Evening, Reason, Breeze

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
Nancy Pelosi

Women, Men, Freedom

It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.
Mia Hamm

If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.
Josh McDowell

Life, Jesus, Path

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
James Otis

Life, Health, Country

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.
Dee Dee Myers

Trust, Pain, Decisions

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

History, Freedom, Matter

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.
Suzanne Farrell

Pain, Why, Everyone

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
Larry Flynt

Success, Yourself, Question

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.
Katherine Heigl

Change, Work, Someone

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.
Thor Heyerdahl

Strength, Through, Rather

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.
Brandy Norwood

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.
Jonathan Sacks

Time, Money, Emotional

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