Sacrifice

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

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

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(485 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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(429 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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(397 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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(384 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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(380 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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(357 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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(294 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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(293 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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(287 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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(266 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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(262 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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(246 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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(237 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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(227 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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