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To do anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. – Steve Prefontaine	added by anonymous 13 years ago
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. – Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. – Katharine Hepburn	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that – Stirling Moss	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice. – Henry Taylor	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
That laugther costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. – Quintilian	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others. – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will. – Grenville Kleiser	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice. – Mahatma Gandhi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. – Richard Bach	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. – Muriel Rukeyser	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete. – Confucius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. – Vince Lombardi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. – James Barrie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. – Charles Du Bos	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets. – Simone Weil	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. – William Butler Yeats	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. – Epictetus	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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