Motivational Quotes

Sacrifice

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Sacrifice

1.

The pig and the chicken were on their way to breakfast, trying to decide what to have. When chicken said, Let's have ham and eggs. The pig then replied, That's fine for you, it's a small donation on your part, but it's a total sacrifice for me.

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The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

3.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Gordimer, Nadine

4.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

Lowell, Amy

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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

Maistre, Joseph De

6.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president s.

Kennedy, John F.

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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Brown, Olympia

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Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Hill, Napoleon

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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

George, David Lloyd

12.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.

Minor, Clark H.

14.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Santayana, George

15.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Bataille, Georges

16.

The universe is so vast and ageless that the life of one man can only be measured by the size of his sacrifice.

Rosewarne V.A

17.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

Renan, Ernest

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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?

Yeats, William Butler

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The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Burroughs, John

21.

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

22.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Klee, Paul

23.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

24.

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Howard, Sidney

25.

The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.