Sacrifice Quotes - Page 38

• comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn't get a lot of respect.  that's the sacrifice you make to do it.

  Jim Carrey

  Art, Joy, Comedy

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• The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control. Since it is impossible to count on enough moral goodwill among those who possess irresponsible power to sacrifice it for the good of the whole, it must be destroyed by coercive methods and these will always run the peril of introducing new forms of injustice in place of those abolished.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Running, Real, Men

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.21, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.

  David Hawkins

  Pain, Effort, Joy

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• ...you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.

  David Deida

  Fall, Opportunity, Men

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.341, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I know that sacrifices have to be made to play with good teams.

  Chris Bosh

  Team, Play, Made

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• So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Speech, Belief

  Walter Lippmann, John Morton Blum (1985). “Public philosopher: selected letters of Walter Lippmann”, Book Sales

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• The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.

  Rudolf Spielmann

  Games, Chess

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• The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

  William Osler

  Jobs, Fall, Opportunity

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• When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Independent, Men, Thinking

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• Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Men, Knowing

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• Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time.

  Michael Josephson

  Good Life, Good Times

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• Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Fate, Giving, Harsh

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• Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Mean, Love Is, Self

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.373

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• Live in the world without any idea of what is going to happen. Whether you are going to be a winner or a loser, it doesn't matter. Death takes everything away. Whether you lose or win is immaterial. The only thing that matters, and has always been, is how you played the game. Did you enjoy it? - the game itself - then each moment is of joy. You never sacrifice the moment for the future.

  Rajneesh

  Winning, Games, Ideas

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• People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.

  Marina Abramovic

  Children, Artist, Men

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• Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can't.

  Mario Balotelli

  Sports, Nice, Boys

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• As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

  Mark McKinnon

  Girl, Running, Husband

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• Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.

  Paul Arden

  Nice, Order, People

  "It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be". Book by Paul Arden, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2003.

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• Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

  Sandra Bernhard

  People, Comfort, Morality

  Interview with Roseanne Barr, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 2, 2012.

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• The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.

  William James

  Men, Doctors, Temptation

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• Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Uplifting, Pain, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Sleep, School, Doctors

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• To get into the consumer's mind, you have to sacrifice. You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute. An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.

  Al Ries

  Essence, Mind, Attributes

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• Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to God's purposes, even to the point of possibly making moral mistakes. One's obedience to God must be forward-oriented and zealous and free, and to be a mere moralist or pietist would make such a life impossible.

  Eric Metaxas

  Mistake, Zealous, Purpose

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• Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Heart, Opera, Spirit

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