Sacrifice Quotes

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship.

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

Everybody in America has to be part of a shared sacrifice to create opportunity for greatness again for our people and our country.

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.

Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience.

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

Which would prove I'm a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people i love?

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.

You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.

Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing.

Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

Love isn’t only passion and joy. It’s also sacrifice.

Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.

Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.

When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice.

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.