Sacrifice Quotes - page 7

A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ... Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism. (Allan Bloom)
The trouble with "sacrifices as symbolic acts" is that the immediate impact on those for whom the sacrifice is made quickly fades, while the impact on those who actually make the sacrifice can go on and on. View quote
Preston Manning
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse. View quote
Anne Perry
Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years. View quote
Marshall Goldsmith
Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then... View quote
Melissa de la Cruz
Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go. View quote
Melissa de la Cruz
your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world. View quote
Rick Riordan
i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something. View quote
Rick Riordan
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness. View quote
Richard Paul Evans
There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice. (Simon Sinek)
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me. View quote
Susanna Clarke
My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom. View quote
Tim Robbins
Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep? View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
A human's love. I couldn't wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to, but humans...humans have a greater capacity for sacrifice for those who live in their hearts. (Aristotle) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor? View quote
Brandon Mull
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge. View quote
Bjarke Ingels
When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level. View quote
David Baldacci
When love is involved no sacrifice is too great. View quote
David Eddings
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck. View quote
James Altucher
Don't sacrifice who you could be for who you are. (Jordan Peterson)
Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember. View quote
Eric S. Nylund
Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me! View quote
Georgette Heyer
Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late. View quote
Katharine Susannah Prichard
This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.... View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson