Great Sacrifice Quotes

• Every great thing requires a great sacrifice.

  Louie Giglio

  Sacrifice, Great Things

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.273, Penguin

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• With great victory comes great sacrifice.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sacrifice, Victory, Great Victory

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• To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

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• Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Sacrifice, Law

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• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

  Simon Sinek

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Numbers

  "Why good leaders make you feel safe". Simon Sinek at TED2014, www.ted.com. May 19, 2014.

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Essays "Circles" (1841)

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• They never fail who die in a great cause.

  Lord Byron

  Death, Failure, Sacrifice

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1218, Delphi Classics

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• What are you doing for others?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Helping Others, Volunteer

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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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.

  David Lloyd George

  Fate, Sacrifice, Hands

  Speech in Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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• I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.

  David Livingstone

  Father, Sacrifice, Giving

  David Livingstone, Adam Sedgwick (1860). “Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge lectures: together with a prefatory letter”, p.167

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• The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Sacrifice, Broken

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• How truly blessed we shall be if at the price of even very great sacrifices we shall have made God known and loved by one more soul!

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Blessed, Sacrifice, Soul

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• If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Faith, Inspiration, Sacrifice

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• Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

  Josephine Hart

  Time, Sacrifice, Men

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

  Humphry Davy

  Life, Family, Smile

  Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.448

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• Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

  Robin Hayes

  Memorial Day, Sacrifice, Men

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• Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.

  John Templeton

  Life, Kindness, Heart

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• When someone works for less pay than she can live on - when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently - then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Sacrifice, Example, Pay

  "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001.

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• Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

  Milan Kundera

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

  Paullina Simons

  Sacrifice, Giving, Great Things

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• In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Kindness, Sacrifice, Opportunity

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• Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

  Herbert Hoover

  Sacrifice, Driven, Knows

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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