SACRIFICE

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(1003 votes)  Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(930 votes)  He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

James Allen
1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''

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(757 votes)  Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Walt Whitman
1819-1892, American Poet

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(751 votes)  The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(748 votes)  Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Margaret Deland

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(748 votes)  Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(720 votes)  The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

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(717 votes)  For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs
1837-1921, American Naturalist, Author

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(678 votes)  We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(669 votes)  Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(668 votes)  Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(655 votes)  Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(603 votes)  The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(570 votes)  There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(555 votes)  Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(553 votes)  The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(538 votes)  They never fail who die in a great cause.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(535 votes)  The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

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(530 votes)  If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president s.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(517 votes)  Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(516 votes)  Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''

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(508 votes)  In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(508 votes)  It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher

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(507 votes)  A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

Amy Lowell
1874-1925, American Poet, Critic

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(502 votes)  Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Albert Schweitzer
1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher

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(499 votes)  No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Ernest Renan
1823-1892, French Writer, Critic, Scholar

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(495 votes)  The pig and the chicken were on their way to breakfast, trying to decide what to have. When chicken said, ''Let's have ham and eggs.'' The pig then replied, ''That's fine for you, it's a small donation on your part, but it's a total sacrifice for me.''

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(489 votes)  As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

Ernest Renan
1823-1892, French Writer, Critic, Scholar

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(485 votes)  The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.

John Osborne
1929-, British Playwright

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(476 votes)  To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Bernadette Devlin

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(475 votes)  In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.

Helen Rowland
1875-1950, American Journalist

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(474 votes)  Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Georges Bataille
1897-1962, French Novelist, Critic

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(467 votes)  In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

James A. Froude
1818-1894, British Historian

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(465 votes)  No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Sir Max Beerbohm
1872-1956, British Actor

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(465 votes)  When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Paul Klee
1879-1940, Swiss Artist

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(464 votes)  The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

Joseph De Maistre
1753-1821, French Diplomat, Philosopher

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(463 votes)  There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Nadine Gordimer
1923-, South African Author

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(457 votes)  He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Olympia Brown
1835-1926, American Women's Suffrage Leader

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(453 votes)  No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.

Clark H. Minor

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(437 votes)  Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

Jeremy Thorpe

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(428 votes)  One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Sidney Howard

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(423 votes)  The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.

Elder Cloward

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(423 votes)  Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

Charlie Finley

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