Quotes with sacrifice

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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • John Ruskin It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ayn Rand 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
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Barack Obama It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barney Frank Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Theodore Parker Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Bob Latta Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Vince Lombardi Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Ernest Renan No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Boris Spassky Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Bill Flores On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Albert Camus Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • George Eliot Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • James Baldwin Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Mario Vargas Llosa Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist (1936 - )
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  • Georges Bataille Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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