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  If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Marriage, Funny Love, Wedding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Lying, Thinking

  "US politics live blog: Chris Christie GOP presidential talk" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2011.

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• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Children, Today

  "President's speech". Abdul Kalam's address to the nation on the eve of Independence Day, www.rediff.com. August 14, 2003.

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• If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Faith, Inspiration, Opportunity

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• Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Soul, Shields

  John Bunyan (1872). “The Complete Works of John Bunyan”, p.80

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• Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Animal, Worship, Humans

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

  Aldous Huxley

  God, Self, Redemption

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Peace, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Loyalty, Heart, Mean

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.142, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Inspiring, Veterans Day

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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• 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

  Literature, Littles, A Man Thinketh

  James Allen (2013). “As a Man Thinketh: The Secret Edition – Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.25, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, God, Faith

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.269, Hendrickson Publishers

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• I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

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

  Ernest Renan

  Struggle, Ideas, Succeed

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• An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

  Jose Marti

  Self, Glory, Instinct

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

  William Wordsworth

  Wise, Light, Self

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.371

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• When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

  Joseph Campbell

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.7, Anchor

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  The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Music, Guitar

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• Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspirational, Self, Progress

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.484, tredition

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• In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)

  Frederick William Robertson

  Failure, Long, Done

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• The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.

  John Ensign

  Successful, Average, Iraq

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• The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Loyalty, Self, Bravery

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.67, Shambhala Publications

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• Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Good Man, Reign

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2581, Delphi Classics

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• No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

  Max Beerbohm

  Work, Self, Doubt

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

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• It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

  Hosea Ballou

  Giving Up, Add, Stores

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