Famous Quotes & Sayings

Otto von Bismarck

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Paul Tillich

Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.

Paul Krugman

To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.

Otto Lilienthal

Small sacrifices must be made.

Paullina Simons

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

Karen McCarthy

I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

Karen Kingsbury

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

Elizabeth Goudge

I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

Elizabeth Gilbert

Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.

Joel Osteen

You sacrifice the few to save the many.

Mao Zedong

Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support.

Mao Zedong

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

Lucy Liu

There's always sacrifices. My family don't generally say that they're related to me - my sister doesn't say she's my sister - because they don' t want to be judged or lauded based on who I am.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.

Louis Zamperini

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

Louis Zamperini

All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

Louisa May Alcott

When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…

John F. Kennedy

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.

John F. Kennedy

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.

Jonathan Kozol

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

Jonathan Haidt

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

Jonah Goldberg

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.

Judith Jamison

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

James Martineau

The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.

James Madison

What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of the fundamental principle of republicanism?

Eric Thomas

To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become

John McCain

Thanks to General Petraeus, our leadership and the sacrifice of brave young Americans. To deny that their sacrifice didn't make possible the success of the surge in Iraq, I think does a great disservice...the progress has been immense.

John Henry Newman

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

John Galsworthy

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

John Calvin

The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

John Calvin

Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.