Willingness To Sacrifice Quotes

• Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Positive, Sacrifice, Losing

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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• The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Sacrifice, Grandchildren, Men

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  The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

  Jeff Miller

  Thanksgiving, Country, Gratitude

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• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Sacrifice

  "Talk Asia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2005.

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• Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

  Michael Novak

  Love, Happiness, Sacrifice

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• Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

  Stephen Covey

  Giving Up, Mean, Sacrifice

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

  Louis Mann

  Giving Up, Commitment, Sacrifice

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• The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

  Marianne Williamson

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Firsts

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.131, Random House

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• Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

  Simon Sinek

  Sacrifice, Volunteer, Leader

  Twitter post from Aug 16, 2013

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• I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Apology calls for a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the wronged party and the inherent value of the relationship, not for what it brings to you but for what you can bring to it.

  John Kador

  Party, Apology, Sacrifice

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• The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

  Carol Gilligan

  Sacrifice, People, Ethics

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• Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, War, Character

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• The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Country, Lying, Sacrifice

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• Even more real than the disaster that has befallen our brothers and sisters must be our own willingness to sacrifice and help with the healing.

  Debra L. Lee

  Brother, Real, Healing

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• North Carolina is strong because our people are strong. They define our state - by their hard work, commitment to their families and neighbors, their willingness to sacrifice so that their children can have a chance to forge their own path.

  Kay Hagan

  Strong, Children, Hard Work

  "Kay Hagan DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 06, 2012.

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• Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for what is most true. To be free we may need to act from integrity, on trust, sometimes for a very long time. Few of us will reach our promised land in a day. But perhaps the most important part of the story is that God does not delegate this task. Whenever anyone moves toward freedom, God Himself is there.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Freedom, Integrity, Moving

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• These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and all of a sudden they hit, they click. Everyone's happy with them and they begin to move mountains. With other people there are problems and heartaches. They just don't go. When we look and see what's happening, almost invariably the differences are along the lines of willingness to sacrifice and work long hours.

  Cesar Chavez

  Leadership, Moving, Sacrifice

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• Sacrifice: Giving up something good for something better. As I have studied great men and women from the beginning of time, the common denominator of greatness has been the ability and willingness to sacrifice for whatever they were trying to achieve. When sacrifice has been there, great humans have emerged. Imagination, Wisdom

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• If you want to get the spirit of the gospel in your home, support the missionary program. Prepare your sons and daughters through your home evenings; through setting the proper example in your homes. Prepare to send them into the mission field. These young sons and daughters will bless your names forever if you help to make it possible through your training and your example and your willingness to sacrifice just a little, if you can call it sacrifice, to see them go into the mission field.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Daughter, Home, Son

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Sacrifice, Dedication

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• Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness to sacrifice. We can win and keep our own self-respect and build a great union that will secure the spirit of all people if we do it through a re-dedication and re-commitment to the struggle for justice through non-violence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Commitment, Hard Work

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