Top 100 To Sacrifice Quotes
#1. I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
Zubin Mehta
#2. We need a people's movement to end this war, ... We're going to ask them How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice for the lies
Cindy Sheehan
#3. We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
Swami Vivekananda
#4. The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.
H.L. Mencken
#5. At first I moved from Sydney to Melbourne, because most of the comedy was shot in Melbourne, and then from Melbourne to Los Angeles - and you have to sacrifice stuff.
Rebel Wilson
#6. To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Emile M. Cioran
#7. A man willing to sacrifice his life for you is more than worth admiring. He's worth loving.
Jessica R. Patch
#8. Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible.
Subhas Chandra Bose
#9. People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it. Will he kill? Will he go to war? Will he break and discard that which he has, all in the name of what he needs?
Brandon Sanderson
#10. In that respect women are really thick. They're the daughters of rigidity. They need a man to feel secure but they don't realize that the one thing they should be afraid of is men. They don't know how to run their lives. They have to sacrifice themselves for the sake of someone else.
Isabel Allende
#11. It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other interests, including those of one's country.
Hermann Hesse
#12. Remember, there's sacrifice involved in any kind of life. Even the man who chooses the safe way has to give up the thrill of combat. The point is that once you know what you want, you must be prepared to sacrifice everything to get it.
John Allyn
#13. 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
#14. The Baroness Lindenberg, as I found afterwards, had long been accustomed to sacrifice the interests of others to her own, and her wish to send Claude to Strasbourg blinded her to the danger of the undertaking. Accordingly,
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#15. Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.
Alan Cohen
#16. Sometimes you have to sacrifice something you love, if you don't want to lose everything you have.
Madeleine George
#17. To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else. Writing is not a job; it is a lifestyle, and it is a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows. You need self-confidence and an iron carapace.
Virginia Henley
#18. Free time is the easiest thing to sacrifice," Defiant said. "It costs you, to give it up, but there's little guilt.
Wildbow
#20. Why was it always the woman who had to sacrifice for love? Just once, couldn't a guy do it instead?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#21. It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.
Chiang Kai-shek
#22. Eid happens twice a year - Eid ul-Fitr or "Small Eid" marks the end of the Ramadan fasting month, and Eid ul-Azha or "Big Eid" commemorates the Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son Ismail to God.
Malala Yousafzai
#23. Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.
Tim Hetherington
#24. Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.
Leo Tolstoy
#25. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never decide to cease to exist.
Orson Scott Card
#26. A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity ... I would rather be alone with dignity than in a relationship that requires me to sacrifice my self respect.
Dinkar Kalotra
#27. Love is a powerful force. It's also much more potent than evil," she emphasized the word 'evil' and gently patted my hand. "Always remember that. You will know what to do. Listen to your heart and decide what you are willing to sacrifice, my dear Pasha.
Kristen Day
#28. In ancient times they sacrificed the virgins. Men were not about to sacrifice the sluts!
Bill Maher
#29. There are three things an athlete must do. You must be in physical condition ... You must execute properly and quickly the fundamentals ... and you must have eagerness to sacrifice personal interests or glory for the welfare of the team.
John Wooden
#30. You know what, man? I am going to literally - if (Palin) gets elected president, I am going to hang out on the grassy knoll all the time, just loaded and ready - because you know what? It's for my country. It's for my country. If I got to sacrifice myself, it's for my country.
Christopher Titus
#31. Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?
Assata Shakur
#32. If you want to win, you have to sacrifice and do what makes the team work most efficiently.
Chris Bosh
#33. 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
#34. If I am good, people compliments me that my voice is like a CD, but whenever my voice condition is not as well and do some mistakes ... I tend to sacrifice myself for my next album.
Park Bom
#36. A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.
Mahatma Gandhi
#37. Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.
Albert Einstein
#38. Even if Douglas was trying to sacrifice me and harvest my creepy powers at the time, I feel like killing people for doing awful things is probably setting a bad precedent for dealing with negative behavior.
Lish McBride
#39. You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .
Leonard Cohen
#40. But there is a beauty even in loving without response because that kind of love is truly selfless. When we love with no expectation or promise of reciprocity, we know what it means to sacrifice and deny ourselves in ways we wouldn't otherwise.
Matt Chandler
#41. I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
Jack Gleeson
#42. I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the thought that you have to sacrifice being cool to believe in God.
Samuel Larsen
#43. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
#44. The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity, Fact to Tradition, Ethics to Dogma.
Andrew Dickson White
#45. When we are young we sacrifice our health for wealth. But when we become old and wise, we become willing to sacrifice every bit of our wealth for just a day of good health.
Robin S. Sharma
#46. The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
Carol Gilligan
#47. Once a woman is comfortable in her own skin, living her own life and building a foundation by herself; it takes one heck of a man to make her want to sacrifice her independence.
Nikki Rowe
#48. But vulnerability is the leading edge of truth. Being wiling to sacrifice a false life is the only way to live a true one.
Charles M. Blow
#49. High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
Samuel Johnson
#50. There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#52. Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.
Kimberly Kinrade
#53. Our people sacrifice a lot for their country, including their lives. None of them should have to sacrifice their integrity as well.
Michael Mullen
#54. Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten - and they're talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.
Edward Snowden
#55. 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
#56. The fact that he was willing to sacrifice his own face in order to keep mine from getting bashed in
Meg Cabot
#57. If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#58. Let us speak of this in purely human terms. Oh! how pitiable a person who has never felt the loving urge to sacrifice everything for love, who has therefore been unable to do so!
Soren Kierkegaard
#59. It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves
Slavoj Zizek
#60. The man who declares that survival at all costs is the end of existence is morally dead, because he's prepared to sacrifice all other values which give life its meaning. - SIDNEY HOOK
Joseph Heller
#61. I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in our quiet life.
Leo Tolstoy
#62. There is a limit to one's capacity for rows, you know. There comes a time when you're only too ready to sacrifice something for a quiet life.
Josephine Tey
#63. The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.
Pat Riley
#64. Those who love their lives too much eventually lose it. While those who are ready to sacrifice their lives for others gain it.
Sunday Adelaja
#65. I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.
Nelly
#66. I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#67. Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.
Simon Sinek
#68. 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
#69. The Politician's goal is to build a fortune, ours is to build our homeland flowering and strong. For her we will work and we will build. For her we will make each Romanian a hero, ready to fight, ready to sacrifice, ready to die.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
#70. The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.
Wendell Berry
#71. In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George F. Will
#72. This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change ... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you - the fear just leaves
Erykah Badu
#73. My friends, how desperately we need to be loved and to love. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.
Chief Dan George
#74. Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.
Eyvind Kang
#75. Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
Herbie Mann
#76. You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.
Bryan Clay
#77. If we aggressively pursue truth, if we are willing to sacrifice, if we look for wisdom from those on the periphery, we have the potential to shock the world from its apathy.
Stephan Bauman
#78. Priests are set up by the pope and his followers to sacrifice Christ, not to teach the people. But
John Calvin
#79. Fixate your love on Him, be obedient to God's word, and don't seek the glory of this world. In doing these things, God will exalt you in this earth and you won't have to sacrifice your soul for earthly crowns that will fade.
Monica Johnson
#80. What pleases the LORD more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obedience to his voice? It is better to obey than to sacrifice.
Rick Warren
#81. God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives.
Daniel Palmer
#82. Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
Alexander Pushkin
#83. We weren't lucky enough to sacrifice our lives for our country, but at least we can live for our country!
Narendra Modi
#84. What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy.
George F. R. Ellis
#85. [Connor, prepared to sacrifice himself to save Sarah]
God, I pray, give me the strength to live the next hour well.
Pamela Clare
#86. Sometimes in this life it is necessary to sacrifice oneself for the good of others . - Mam
Joseph Delaney
#87. accomplish, and they do not always have the time to squeeze all of these activities in a sixteen hour day (since we spend eight hours sleeping). Since it is impossible to sacrifice sleep altogether (meaning, omit or significantly decrease the amount of hours
Gus Barrett
#88. But the soldiers would have gladly given up their beds to a woman." "Yes, and I hate them for it." She pushed him away. "It's the arrogance of men that leads them to sacrifice themselves. Not real consideration.
Karl Schroeder
#89. The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...
Jean Baudrillard
#90. That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3
Albert Camus
#91. Sometimes you have to sacrifice because you see what the end goal is. When you have a dream and you want to get it done, you can't wait on other people.
Reagan Gomez-Preston
#92. My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.
Peggy Guggenheim
#93. There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.
Maynard Webb
#94. My parents mean well," Grace said. "They want me to succeed."
"Well of course," Mallory said. "They love you. But I'm thinking success and happiness don't get along. Sometimes you have to sacrifice one for the other.
Jill Shalvis
#97. Pricing low is shortsighted, because someone else is always willing to sacrifice more profit margin and drive you both bankrupt.
Timothy Ferriss
#98. It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
#99. We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them.
Ole Hallesby
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