Quotes About Sacrificing

#1. Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

Martha Beck

#2. Toby, watch Jaden. I heard he had a bad night and is in the mood for annihilation. End of the world's not on me today, bud. Hey, Takeshi, get your fat butt off me. You're squishing the fox. There is no honor in sacrificing the fox, you ugly hedgehog. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind.

Esther Dalseno

#4. I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They bear toward their former masters no revengeful thoughts, no hatreds, no animosities. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow-citizens.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#5. I've always paid attention to religion ... because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them - other than goat sacrificing.

Brad Pitt

#6. But it is impossible for anyone to say 'I am sacrificing myself' without feeling bitterness.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. Jesus died as He had lived-praying, forgiving, loving, sacrificing, trusting, quoting Scripture. If I die as I have lived, how will I die?

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#8. The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.

Simon Sinek

#9. Maybe that's what love is - sacrificing yourself to save another, taking the insult or taking the hit.

Katherine Reay

#10. The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.

Alma Gluck

#11. Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others,

Pope Francis

#12. I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?

Ben Peek

#13. I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

Teena Marie

#14. There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.

Barry Sternlicht

#15. Surrender ... sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed

Rick Warren

#16. I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

Jens Voigt

#17. It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of himself, may succeed in sowing a few roses on the thorns of life.

Marquis De Sade

#18. When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.

Chris Kyle

#20. My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#21. Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.

William Ralph Inge

#23. Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.

Tadeusz Pankiewicz

#24. The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.

Therese Of Lisieux

#25. If men were reduced to sacrificing other men to appease the darkness, the Dark god's reign had already begun.

Miyuki Miyabe

#26. The boy who kidnapped Holly Short all those years ago would never have entertained the notion of sacrificing himself. But he was no longer that boy. His parents were restored to him, and he had brothers. And dear friends. Something else Artemis had never anticipated.

Eoin Colfer

#27. Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?"

Stephen Covey

#28. For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams.

Nicholas Sparks

#29. A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's not about ignoring fear. It's about facing it, knowing the risks and the costs and sacrificing safety and security anyway.

Ally Carter

#30. Love means sometimes sacrificing the things you want in order to make somebody else happy. It means being there for them, even when maybe you don't feel like it, because they need you.

Leila Sales

#31. Mme. de Gallardon, who could never stop herself from sacrificing her greatest social ambitions and highest hopes of someday dazzling the world to the immediate, obscure, and private pleasure of saying something disagreeable.

Marcel Proust

#32. It is not simply to show power...that a man...throws coppers into the sea...In doing this he is also sacrificing to the gods and spirits...

Marcel Mauss

#33. Those who can truly love, they're like candles; they don't mind sacrificing themselves for the sake of love. But the rest of us are candle holders. We love and appreciate the light of love, but are too afraid to burn ourselves down to light up someone else's life.

Uday Mukerji

#34. Which would prove I'm a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people i love?

David Wong

#35. You're a death priestess?" the man asked. His urge to have sex with her had diminished greatly, though not entirely. "Like, sacrificing babies and devouring souls to gain the power of daemons and all that?

Patrick Weekes

#36. The eternal God - the infinite Jehovah - has done all he could do - even to the sacrificing his own Son - to provide a way for man's happiness, and yet they reject him, hate him, and laugh him to scorn!

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#37. The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

Gerald R. Ford

#38. The ability to last in motherhood requires giving up expectations for our own lives, deciding that sacrificing our desires and wants for the sake of our family is our gift of worship to our heavenly Father. To

Sarah Mae

#39. Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#40. I wouldn't be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.

Sol Luckman

#41. He knows about sacrificing himself for the good of the whole.That's what soldiers do.It's not the torture he can't forgive me for. Nor deceiving him about his people. It's because I put you in harm's way he is so angry" Then she said, very calmly, "If I could kill you, I would" - Mrsilia

Patricia Briggs

#42. Because your attainment is always ahead, you will always be sacrificing yourself now for some ideal in the future.

Shunryu Suzuki

#43. Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.

Thomas Sowell

#44. I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.

Marge Piercy

#45. What good is treasure if I'm alone? After sharing so much of our dreams instead of sacrificing them and leaving with you. I would rather have nothing at all!

Nami

#46. Socialism" for the Nazis denotes the principle of collectivism as such and its corollary, statism - in every field of human action, including but not limited to economics. "To be a socialist," says Goebbels, "is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole."9

Leonard Peikoff

#47. We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing ...

Plato

#48. When you are faced with choices, you can achieve your dreams without sacrificing your integrity.

Mary Whipple

#49. Sacrificing myself to kill Hilary Clinton was the best thing I could possibly do for humanity

Jeff Foxworthy

#50. The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.

Simon Jenkins

#51. Men everywhere were sacrificing at the altar of some beautiful woman in their life.

Bart Hopkins

#52. We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.

Rick Perry

#53. There is more than one way of sacrificing to the rebel angels.

Augustine Of Hippo

#54. ultimately, the long-term goal is to have a critically informed public vote out of office representatives that are sacrificing children to the corporate bottom line with prepackaged teacher-proof curricula, standardized tests, and accountability schemes.

Pepi Leistyna

#55. God's design for taking the gospel to the world is a slow, intentional, simple process that involves every one of his people sacrificing every facet of their lives to multiply the life of Christ in others.

David Platt

#56. We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to try to get it, and if we can give it without sacrificing something that's really important to us, then we should.

Peter Singer

#57. Typical frivolous always ended by sacrificing to vulgar pleasures. She

Henry James

#58. Sacrificing who we are for the sake of what other people think just isn't worth it.

Brene Brown

#59. Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don't apply some of the
medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying.

T.D. Jakes

#60. Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Albert Schweitzer

#61. My mother's no dummy. She taught the lesson about sacrificing for your kids, but also that if your kids hit it big, they better make it up to you for those years. She's gotten her sacrifices back with interest.

Sean Combs

#62. Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

Steve Pavlina

#63. We do not have to make self-sacrifice a necessary element of altruism. We can regard people as altruists because of the kind of interests they have rather than because they are sacrificing their interests.

Peter Singer

#64. I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

Elizabeth Goudge

#65. We'll organize workers in this movement as long as we're willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing.

Cesar Chavez

#66. There is no glory in the sacrificing of oneself in the name of imperialism by order of elitist politicians. But this is what our young service members are led to believe.

Aaron B. Powell

#67. With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.

Tom Udall

#68. A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something else in return, but once you have overcome it and made it your own ... you will gain an irreplaceable fullmetal heart.

Hiromu Arakawa

#69. Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

Sean Penn

#70. I spent the morning as the ceiling in the warlocks' tent. Found out that the hobbies of Those Best Forgotten include long walks on the beach and sacrificing nymphs on altars. I mean, who'd want to hurt a nymph? That's like kicking a rainbow in the nuts.

Kresley Cole

#71. Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.

Germaine Greer

#72. I'm not worried about the future as much as I'm worried about the past. About keeping my memories real and not sacrificing them to match the present.

Zoe Trope

#73. Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met.

Stephen Kendrick

#74. There are some mortals who are worth sacrificing eternity for.

Morgan Rhodes

#75. Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did - as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

Lawrence W. Reed

#76. When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

Stevie Nicks

#77. There's always going to be a ball up in the air, and what I try to do is make sure that ball is never the kids. If that means sacrificing a social event or having fewer work commitments, it's worth it.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#78. There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one's humanity, to exist in a colder, crueler world than before.

John Connolly

#79. I'm struck when I see Jesus simply, intentionally, systematically, patiently walking alongside twelve men. Jesus reminds me that disciples are not mass-produced. Disciples of Jesus - genuine, committed, self-sacrificing followers of Christ - are not made overnight.

David Platt

#80. The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.

John D. Rockefeller

#81. I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

Ron Paul

#82. It was such a shame. Jared was stunningly gorgeous, and once upon a time, he was a good guy. If things had been different, I could be his. Once upon a time, I thought I was his. But I wouldn't be sacrificing my pride to him. Ever. Again.

Penelope Douglas

#83. If we can prevent something bad, without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it.

Peter Singer

#84. I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.

Amandla Stenberg

#85. I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.

Harry Lloyd

#86. Every sacrifice I make is for the good of my Clan - and for the other Clans around the lake. Even if that means sacrificing myself.

Erin Hunter

#87. Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

Victor Hugo

#88. The suffragettes realized the power of getting arrested and going to prison and harassing politicians and making a nuisance of themselves. It got them a lot of attention. What they never did was set out to endanger human life except for sacrificing themselves.

Sarah Gavron

#89. The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#90. All right," she said a little sarcastically. "I was going to assume you liked eating babies and sacrificing virgins, but I might as well ask, what do you do for fun?"
"I languish in sin," I replied in the same tone. "I take my babies rare, and my virgins over easy.

Nenia Campbell

#91. I'm not really the sacrificing type.

Franny Billingsley

#92. [T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

George Orwell

#93. Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

Eric Hoffer

#94. When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

Cory Booker

#95. Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.

Frederick Lenz

#96. I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

Thomas Jefferson

#97. Before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, there was the same sort of talk of young men sacrificing their lives so that a country might grow - that somehow it had been a great nation-building success for Newfoundland.

Michael Winter

#98. Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.

Kevin DeYoung

#99. Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn't come in one form, it determined by your own heart.

Ai Yazawa

#100. We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.

Ron Kind