Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claude Vorilhon

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

J. C. Ryle

There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.

J. C. Ryle

Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

Isaac Watts

Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

George Bernard Shaw

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

Frederick William Faber

Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Eric Cantona

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

Enzo Ferrari

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Ingvar Kamprad

Ten minutes are not just one-sixth of your hourly pay; ten minutes is a piece of yourself. Divide yourself into ten units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activities. Most things still remain to be done.

Hannah More

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

Harold MacMillan

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

Gwen Stefani

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

the sacrifice of not only the servicemen but also the whole country.

Gary L. Francione

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

Gloria Allred

There is no change without sacrifice.

George Washington

A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle... Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.

George Santayana

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

G. H. Hardy

Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well, and the number of men who can do two things well is negligible. If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

Catharine Beecher

We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.

Steven Pinker

All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of witches for their malevolent powers.

Stevie Nicks

When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.