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Sacrifice And Quotes About It

Claudia Miclaus
We all sacrifice something to achieve a goal or another. Read the following sayings that will provide you with insights into what great personalities think or thought about it.
"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."
― Mahatma Gandhi
"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."
― Vince Lombardi
"Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win."
― Cesar Chavez
"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
― Katharine Hepburn

"Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. . . ."
― William Barclay
"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it."
― Lee Iacocca
"Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there."
― John Kotter
"Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else."
― G. K. Chesterton
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty."
― Proverb

"Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice."
― Woodrow T. Wilson
"The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles"
― Mahatma Gandhi
"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."
― Napoleon Hill
"Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise-the fruit of lips that confess his name. And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased."
― Hebrews 13:15-16
"Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her."
― Friedrich Nietzsche
"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title.........
.........Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all............
..........Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours."
― Ayn Rand
"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would accomplish much must sacrifice much."
― James Allen
"This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins."
― 1 John 4:10
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
― John 3:16