Sacrifice Quotes

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.
Tom Tancredo

Great, Nothing, Country

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
Bernadette Devlin

Politics, Job, Place

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
Mike Ferguson

War, Courage, Patriotism

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.
Isabelle Huppert

Funny, Experience, Before

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
Henry Taylor

Self, Away, Generosity

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.
Anatoly Karpov

Time, Two, Days

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
LeVar Burton

Life, Politics, Health

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
John M. McHugh

History, Courage, Battle

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
Alan Dean Foster

Life, Giving, Innocent

Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it's, it's time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena.
Thaksin Shinawatra

Life, Family, Time

Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation.
Leonard Boswell

Work, Hard, Law

As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.
Bjorn Borg

Work, Beautiful, Happy

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
Ernest Renan

Life, Struggle, Succeed

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
Stefan Zweig

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
John White Geary

Men, Around, Personal

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
Alma Gluck

Life, Art, Thinking

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
Pat Benatar

Power, Conviction

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.
Dick Morris

Art, Human, Mean

Democrats, independents, Republicans, all of us Americans who love our country. What a wonderful time to come together and really just count our blessings. And to remember those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for us and for this country and all those freedoms we love.
Robert Hurt

Love, Time, Blessings

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
Georges Bataille

Nothing, Production, Sacred

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Muriel Rukeyser

Live, Long, Moment

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
Frederica Montseny

Great, Alone, Struggle

In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.
Frederica Montseny

Sense, Order, Create

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
Dennis Weaver

Strong, Healthy, Economy

This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.
Jim Walsh

Freedom, Today, Away

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
Nadine Gordimer

Moral, Authority

It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?
Lisa Gardner

Work, Women, Men

The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy.
Ben Nelson

Women, Men, Enjoy

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.
Simon Sinek

Decision, Balance

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Ask, Took, Glad

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