Sacrifice Quotes

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.
Omar Bongo

Life, Dangerous, Ready

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
James Anthony Froude

Positive, Law, Everyday

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
John Green

Family, Politics, War

Love is sacrifice.
David Oyelowo

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.
Richard King

Working, Movie, Finish

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
Jeff Miller

Gratitude, Country, America

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.
Jillian Michaels

Parenting, Grow, Sissies

But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.
Andre Braugher

Beautiful, Working, Sure

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.
Kit Bond

Leaving, Son, Rather

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
Thomas Francis Meagher

Stand, Guilt, Duty

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Stanislaw Lec

Mankind, Deserves

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
Ernest Istook

Life, Time, Respect

It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.
Alva Noto

Important, Both, Next

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
Lasse Hallstrom

Character, Interest, Stories

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!
James McAvoy

Time, Travel, Selfish

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.
Guy Finley

Love, Humility, Old

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.
Mick Taylor

Music, Why, Else

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
Boris Spassky

Important, Often, Players

Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.
Mark Pryor

Life, Time, Women

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
Bill Walton

Basketball, Joy, Play

To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.
Oscar Pistorius

Work, Real, Hard

I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.
Mohammed Omar

Life, Islam, Everything

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.
Bryan Clay

Follow, Beliefs

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
Edward Everett

Time, Men, History

You have to execute. You have to sacrifice your body.
Pedro Martinez

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.
Brandi Chastain

Honest, Soccer, Looked

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.
Georges Duhamel

Humble, Words, Together

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.
Nick Lampson

Pet, Powerful, Veterans

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
John Osborne

Time, Sex, Give

For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.
Steve Buyer

Life, Women, Men

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