Great Sacrifice Quotes - Page 2

• Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Sacrifice, People, Effort

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• Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

  Fred Wilson

  Country, Home, Sacrifice

  "A Veterans Day Story" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• 'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Believe, Struggle

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.259, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Sleep, School, Sacrifice

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• Not surprisingly, as the pioneer theme is presented, each goes back in memory to his or her own family line. There are usually examples to identify and which fit the definition of a pioneer: "one who goes before, showing others the way to follow." Some, if not all, made great sacrifices to leave behind comfort and ease and respond to that clarion call of their newly found faith.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Memories, Sacrifice, Lines

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• When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Self, Choices

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• The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not made any great sacrifices of blood. They would certainly not withstand a trial by fire, for their fighting qualities were low. In general no such thing as an American people existed as a unit; they were nothing but a mass of immigrants from many nations and many races.

  Albert Speer

  War, Fighting, Sacrifice

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• The U.S. liberated Iraq from a tyrant. I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude, and I believe most Iraqis express that. I mean, the people understand that we've endured great sacrifice to help them. That's the problem here in America. They wonder whether or not there is a gratitude level that's significant enough in Iraq.

  George W. Bush

  Gratitude, Believe, Mean

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• Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even though what they have done is heroic - is to distinguish them from the civic duty they performed, and excuses the rest of us from the same civic duty to speak out when we see something wrong, when we witness our government engaging in serious crimes, abusing power, engaging in massive historic violations of the Constitution of the United States. We have to speak out or we are party to that bad action.

  Edward Snowden

  Hero, Party, Sacrifice

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid for by philanthropic groups and organizations and labor unions, etc. So, the people who came did not necessarily have to make a great sacrifice to be there.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Monday, Sacrifice, Weekend

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Sacrifice, Men, Grace

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• Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Sacrifice, Great Love, Lovers

  Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that we love one another.

  Chico Xavier

  Jesus, Sacrifice, People

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• The Mars Polar Lander cost the average American the price of half a cheeseburger. A human lander would cost the average American more - perhaps even ten cheeseburgers! So be it. That is no great sacrifice.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Sacrifice, Average, Cost

  "A Continent Bleeds" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. May 3, 2000.

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• Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.

  Jean de Gribaldy

  Sports, Football, Hockey

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• It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

  Leslie Feinberg

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Born

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• I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Vegetarianism

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• It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all...What a brutal job!

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Jobs, Fun, Sacrifice

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• Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.

  Robin Sharma

  Sacrifice, Achievement, Great Achievement

  Twitter post from Sep 08, 2016

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• [Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently attempting to originate new ones; considering that, however necessary to the advancement of science, they demanded a great sacrifice of time, and that when the fact was once established, that time was better employed in considering the purposes to which it might be applied, or the principles which it might tend to elucidate.

  Hudson Gurney

  Life, Sacrifice, Science

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