Quotes About Willingness To Sacrifice

#1. I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#2. The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

William Jennings Bryan

#3. The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual distinction is surely acceptable to God. But, as in the case of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac, the sacrifice itself is not always finally required. What is required is obedience.

Elisabeth Elliot

#4. Perhaps the most defining characteristic of a superhero is a willingness to sacrifice for the good of others, even to the point of laying down his or her own life.

Rachel Hawkins

#5. The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

Carol Gilligan

#6. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Michael Novak

#7. That disables a lot of people from achieving goals, it is simply, a lack of willingness to pay for these goals, a lack of willingness to make great effort, a lack of willingness to sacrifice their comfort for those goals.

Orison Swett Marden

#8. In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.

Vince Lombardi

#9. Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Michael Novak

#10. North Carolina is strong because our people are strong. They define our state - by their hard work, commitment to their families and neighbors, their willingness to sacrifice so that their children can have a chance to forge their own path.

Kay Hagan

#11. The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

Gaylord Nelson

#12. Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.

William Shatner

#13. Even more real than the disaster that has befallen our brothers and sisters must be our own willingness to sacrifice and help with the healing.

Debra L. Lee

#14. To the British, Dunkirk symbolizes a generosity of spirit, a willingness to sacrifice for the common good. To Americans, it has come to mean Mrs. Miniver, little ships, The Snow Goose, escape by sea. To the French, it suggests bitter defeat; to the Germans, opportunity forever lost.

Walter Lord

#15. People readily demonstrate a willingness to sacrifice their safety and survival for the sake of something beyond themselves, such as family, country, or justice.

Atul Gawande

#16. The willingness to sacrifice on the part of workers and members is perhaps the key practical index of whether you have become a movement or have become institutionalized.

Timothy Keller

#17. Apology calls for a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the wronged party and the inherent value of the relationship, not for what it brings to you but for what you can bring to it.

John Kador

#18. Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

Simon Sinek

#19. Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity.

Gordon S. Wood

#20. Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

Ben Parr

#21. The willingness of God to sacrifice his Son to reconcile us to himself is a demonstration of his love for us.

Robert Jeffress

#22. A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk.

Leonid Shamkovich

#23. Nothing has changed in Russia since Ivan the Terrible when it comes to the divide between the people and the state. The state demands a sacred willingness to make sacrifices from the people.

Vladimir Sorokin

#24. Only those willing to truly risk everything will gain everything. No person ever rose to greatness without the willingness to lose it all.

Dan Pearce

#25. The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.

Eric Hoffer

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

Jeff Miller

#27. Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

William Bennett

#28. For believers in persecuted countries. We champion their sacrifice and willingness to stand for Christ, even at the cost of their own lives. Yet we consider laying aside our traditions and cultural preferences as an unreasonable expectation.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#29. We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#30. While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of Achilles.

Tim O'Reilly

#31. Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

Bobby Bowden