Sacrifice Quotes - Page 6

• People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.

  Howard Schultz

  Fighting, People, Want

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• You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

  Bryan Clay

  Belief, Who You Are

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• The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

  Marcel Proust

  Giving Up, Reality, Artist

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.268, Modern Library

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• I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

  Lauren Oliver

  Love, People, Giving

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium (Delirium Trilogy 1)”, p.270, Hachette UK

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• Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

  Tryon Edwards

  Commitment, Loss, Second Amendment

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.224, Ravenio Books

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• 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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Crazy, America

  "With Kennedy". Book by Pierre Salinger, Chapter 1: Lancer to Wayside, page 1, 1966.

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

  Paul Klee

  Art, Remember, Significant

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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  When I hear people talk about juggling or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy because sacrifice infers that there was something better to do than the thing - than being with your children.

  Chris Rock

  Children, Crazy, People

  "Chris Rock On The Funny Business Of Finding Success". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 8, 2012.

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

  George Santayana

  Making Sacrifices, Sacrifice For Others

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

  Horace Mann

  Perseverance, Self, Patient

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.313

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Pain, Philosophical

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• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Law, Soul

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cat, Animal, Teeth

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Order, Return, Made

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• It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Offering, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.677, Penguin

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• Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Happiness, Selfish, Love Yourself

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• Small sacrifices must be made.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Made

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• Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Progress, Good Kings

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

  Confucius

  Men, Parent, Alive

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• If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

  Ismail Kadaré

  Change, Nature, Animal

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• Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

  Georges Bataille

  Sacred Things, Productions, Sacred

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.119, U of Minnesota Press

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• Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Glowing, Suffering, Generations

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• It is said that our indigenous ancestors, Mayas and Aztecs, made human sacrifices to their gods. It occurs to me to ask: How many humans have been sacrificed to the gods of Capital in the last five hundred years?

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Years, Lasts, Hundred

  Source: www.indians.org

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• QUOTES BOUQUET: Three Things You Should Never Sacrifice: Family, Heart And Dignity

  Adnan

  Heart, Three, Bouquets

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