Top 100 Quotes About Sacrifices
#1. What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.
Richard Dawkins
#2. When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.
Jonathan Horton
#3. You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.
Helene Cardona
#4. The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.
Confucius
#5. There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine
Mikhail Tal
#6. It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.
Dennis Hastert
#7. The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
#8. When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.
Sarah Sundin
#9. The Greek people do not want to exit the euro. And I believe the Greek people already have shown that they have made major sacrifices to stay in the euro zone.
George Papandreou
#10. I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.
J. M. W. Turner
#11. A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.
John Brown Gordon
#12. Man, to Lewis, is an immortal subject; pains are his moral remedies, salutary disciplines, willing sacrifices, playing their part in a drama of interchange between God and him.
Jocelyn Gibb
#13. Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
Rick Santorum
#14. My mom and dad were extremely supportive. But my mom, she definitely made a lot of sacrifices, specifically because she wasn't working at the time. She ended up going and finding a job so she could continue to put me through gymnastics.
Jonathan Horton
#15. Never change yourself for the sake of someone , because at the day end no one owns your sacrifices and sufferings.
Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri
#16. All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.
James Fenimore Cooper
#17. In Russia whenever you encounter a minor official, he lets you know that he is above you and that you depend on him. It is reflected in the superpower mentality that nourishes the Kremlin. An empire always demands sacrifices from its people.
Vladimir Sorokin
#18. About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. Only thing that counts are ideas. Behind ideas are [moral] principles. Either one is serious or one is not. Must be prepared to make sacrifices. I'm not a liberal.
Susan Sontag
#20. But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.
Tertullian
#21. Some sacrifices aren't worth the cost. Even, or perhaps most especially, those made out of love.
Leslye Walton
#22. Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.
John Smith
#24. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences.
Suzanne Collins
#25. We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face.
Dick Durbin
#26. Quentin knew he wasn't happy. Why not? He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come.
Anonymous
#27. The truly noble heart sacrifices itself for others' good, to defend the weak and the good against evil. To a heart like this, a heart devoted to chivalry, courage is a matter of form.
J. Aaron Gruben
#28. A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
Jason Kidd
#29. If he sacrifices his legs, he will be admitting to Dr. Traylor that he has won; he will be surrendering to him, to that night in the field with the
Hanya Yanagihara
#30. Sacrifices by believers should not be done out of pity
Sunday Adelaja
#31. The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.
Larry Herzberg
#32. When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#33. A wise nation preserves its records, gathers
up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its
greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual
references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.
Joseph Howe
#34. It was compassion. The tragic kind of compassion, the kind that sacrifices itself and sees that sacrifice as the only choice and thus no choice at all, one that must be accepted without hesitation.
Steven Erikson
#35. Never change yourself for someone, because at the day end no one own your sacrifices.
Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri
#36. I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#37. A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.
William Benton Clulow
#38. Gabe crouches over the radio, trying to get it to pick up one of the mainland music stations, which only works when the weather is just right and the appropriate slain sacrifices have been made.
Maggie Stiefvater
#39. Like sacrifices, prayer is intended to change man, not God. Its purpose is to cultivate a contrite heart, to promote feelings of humility and inadequacy in man, whilst encouraging reliance on Divine assistance.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
#40. Most people think they want Main Streets but won't make the small sacrifices in terms of time, cost, and footpower necessary to sustain them. The sad fact is that we have created a culture in which most people will happily-indeed, unthinkingly-drive an extra couple of miles to walk thirty less feet.
Bill Bryson
#41. Sacrifices made for love are fine, unless the sacrifice is you.
Kellie Elmore
#42. The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#43. When I look in the mirror I see my parents' sacrifices being honored. I see the love from which I was created and the power of the human spirit.
Zulay Henao
#44. It's just ... wow, I'm happy for you. I think this is great. Its love- the real kind you make sacrifices for. The kind where you scream 'screw it' to everyone else. That's envy-worthy.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#45. As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life.
Josie Sigler
#46. ... his light to my dark. His truth to my lies. His sacrifices to my selfishness.
Jessica Shirvington
#47. I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.
Kerry Healey
#48. Love is all about sacrifices - big and small ones. It's only when you know how much you could give up for somebody that you know what true love really is." The whirring fan spun above them,
Karen White
#49. Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
Marco Rubio
#50. We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#51. You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.
Mariska Hargitay
#52. There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.
Gisele Bundchen
#53. In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. The Tezuman Empire in the jungle valleys of central Klatch is known for it organic market gardens, its exquisite craftsmanship in obsidian, feathers and jade, and its mass human sacrifices in honor of Quezovercoatl, the Feathered Boa, god of mass human sacrifices.
Terry Pratchett
#56. Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.
Herbert Hoover
#57. Never underestimate the sacrifices you will make for love . . .
Catherine Lowell
#58. Life taught me an eternal love will demand the worst sacrifices. A transcendent love will split your soul, cleaving you into pieces. A love this strong doesn't grant you sweetness - it grants you pain. And in that pain is the greatest pleasure of all.
Anonymous
#59. Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#60. Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.
Bill Jensen
#61. I am grateful for the lessons I learned from my parents' sacrifices. They often had trouble making ends meet, so we moved for them to find work. I remember my mom would sometimes take on second jobs, like ironing, just so we could buy groceries.
Rick Scott
#62. I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
Franz Liszt
#63. Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced ... can you realize how much the modern world owes to the Hebrew prophets, whose monotheism and moral teachings entered into Christianity and Islam ...
Carlton J. H. Hayes
#64. Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#65. If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. Nothing pisses me off like having my sacrifices undermined.
Rachel Bach
#67. One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.
Julius Wellhausen
#68. Sometimes things don't work out as they're planned, and there have to be sacrifices in order to make things better again.
Gail Tsukiyama
#69. She picked up a slice of Victoria Sponge, broke it into large pieces and tossed them in their direction. I hadn't had any yet, and could not suppress a small whimper. 'It's for science, Director,' she said. 'We must all make sacrifices.
Jodi Taylor
#70. We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.
Hill Harper
#71. Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.
Michael N. Castle
#72. I don't want to make sacrifices. I want to make dough.
Joseph Heller
#73. Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.
Suzanne Collins
#74. And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.
Bulent Ecevit
#75. Self Sacrifice Kills the person who sacrifices
Louise L. Hay
#76. One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.
Thomas Sowell
#77. Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.
Buzz Aldrin
#78. Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell
#79. I long for a church that understands the dangers of entertainment and sees it for what is is: a lion crouching at the evangelical door, ready to devour us. We need a culture of evangelism that never sacrifices to the idolatry of entertainment, but serves up the rich fare found the gospel of Christ.
J. Mack Stiles
#80. I thought about falling to my knees on purpose. This was the kind of beauty you worshiped. The kind you built temples for and offered sacrifices to. I wished I had something in my empty hands to give her, but what would a goddess want from a mediocre mortal like me?
Stephenie Meyer
#81. Truth is no prostitute, that throws herself away upon those who do not desire her; she is rather so coy a beauty that he who sacrifices everything to her cannot even then be sure of her favour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#82. There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.
John Updike
#84. Truth is, no two people are completely compatible. We have to learn to become one. That means we may have to make sacrifices; we may have to overlook some things. We must be willing to compromise for the good of the relationship.
Joel Osteen
#85. If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#86. Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.
Barack Obama
#87. The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull.
Jose Rizal
#88. I fear not," Hamilcar said gravely, shaking his head. "It seems to be the fate of all nations, that as they grow in wealth so they lose their manly virtues. With wealth comes corruption, indolence, a reluctance to make sacrifices, and a weakening of the feeling of patriotism.
G.A. Henty
#90. What I have learnt in life is that,
What we are today, are not the compromises or sacrifices we made in life.
We are the product of passion in priorities we make to enrich our as well as other's life. Indeed, you are only growing and evolving in your life with your tough decisions.
Rachana Shakyawar
#91. People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.
Dean Koontz
#92. While I do believe we are loved even when we do not make the sacrifices we could make, I think part of this life is learning to love what we are capable of.
Ashley Mae Hoiland
#93. Once a winner Always a Winner,But never forget the sacrifices,situation and sulking that made you one
Abhishek Sundarraman
#94. And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me.
Ray Lewis
#95. In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation.
Ludwig Von Mises
#96. A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
Garrett Hardin
#97. That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.
William Robertson Smith
#98. When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
Noah Webster
#99. Everyone makes sacrifices for their job; the movie's not saying that you don't have to work hard. The movie is saying that if you're going to work hard, then make it worth it, believe in what you're doing.
Anne Hathaway
#100. Have we ever wondered a mothers silent cries? Her struggles, her fears and her worries? Do we ever have time for this in our busy lives? Have we ever thought of the sacrifices she has done in order to make our lives happier, and her dreams cut short to make our dreams come true?
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
