(835 quotes found)
“Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.”
Tryon Edwards
“Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.”
Laurence Olivier Sir
“There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, Endeavor, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Fatherland.”
Adolf Hitler
“Sacrifice - Your role may be thankless, but if you're willing to five it your all, you just might bring success to those who outlast you.”
Larry Kersten
“It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required”
Ivan Goncharov
“A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.”
Jalal Talabani
“The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”
Florence Nightingale
“It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
Thomas Merton
“Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton