Sacrifice Quotes

‘Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.’ – Pele

‘Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.’ – Sai Baba

‘To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.’ – Steve Prefontaine

‘You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.’ – Lionel Messi

‘Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.’ – Joan of Arc

‘True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.’ – Sadhu Vaswani

‘A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.’ – Shakira

‘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

‘When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.’ – Edmund Burke

‘I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

‘Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.’ – Donovan Bailey

‘The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of.’ – Bethany Hamilton

‘As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I’m going to work for it – even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.’ – Medgar Evers

‘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

‘The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.’ – Jeff Miller

‘Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.’ – Michael Novak

‘People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘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

‘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 M. Barrie

‘Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? – William Butler Yeats’ – William Butler Yeats

‘At the end of the day, we all want to win, so everybody has to sacrifice when you want to be a part of something special.’ – Jayson Tatum

‘Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.’ – Alexander the Great

‘Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.’ – Simon Sinek

‘You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.’ – Lou Holtz

‘Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.’ – James Altucher

‘Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.’ – Patrick Lencioni

‘A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.’ – Dan Rather

‘If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.’ – Katharine Hepburn

‘It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.’ – Cesar Chavez

‘I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.’ – Joseph Campbell

‘Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.’ – Enzo Ferrari

‘We don’t have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.’ – Dennis Weaver

‘Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.’ – Th√©r√®se of Lisieux

‘A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.’ – Gary Hamel

‘Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.’ – William Barclay

‘A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.’ – Wilhelm Steinitz

‘I’m saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don’t and we want to change – I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.’ – Philip Zimbardo

‘The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.’ – Patti Smith

‘There’s no shortcuts to winning. You have to be willing to pay the price and be willing to sacrifice.’ – Tom Thibodeau

‘Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.’ – Franz Liszt

‘In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.’ – Richard Bach

‘Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership – it’s an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.’ – Richard Foster

‘It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.’ – Ayn Rand

‘Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.’ – Charlie Dent

‘There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.’ – Nadine Gordimer

‘When you’re challenged to the extreme, you learn so much about yourself. And when you’re willing to give that ultimate sacrifice, when you’re willing to tackle a job or a task or a mission head-on and give 100%, you can achieve amazing things because you’re almost fearless.’ – Ant Middleton

‘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

‘There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about the paratroopers I served with who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.’ – Chris Gibson

‘My mum’s amazing. She’s the person I admire most, I think, in her sacrifice to me and my sister and her level of emotional sacrifice to people around her. She takes a high level of personal responsibility for the welfare of people around her.’ – Jon Richardson

‘Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation’s founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America’s storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.’ – Joe Barton

‘For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It’s not negotiable.’ – Edgar Ramirez

‘A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.’ – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

‘I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.’ – Diana Lopez

‘Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.’ – Gwen Stefani

‘To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.’ – James E. Faust

‘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

‘We all naturally want to become successful… we also want to take shortcuts. And it’s easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.’ – Apolo Ohno

‘Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won’t die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn’t have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn’t want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream.’ – Steven Wright

‘I thank my personal staff for their restless sacrifice for my work.’ – Oskar Schindler

‘Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.’ – Aime Cesaire

‘If you have a dream, it’s definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.’ – Carli Lloyd

‘There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives.’ – Robert Nozick

‘When the nation can act freely, then China may be called strong. To make the nation free, we must each sacrifice his freedom.’ – Sun Yat-sen

‘I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.’ – Bob Riley

‘Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that’s part of what we do in ‘Close Up’, finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.’ – William Shatner

‘Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.’ – Kamala Harris

‘In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.’ – Dalai Lama

‘People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.’ – Saul Alinsky

‘People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.’ – Chris Hemsworth

‘From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That’s the rule of life.’ – Lata Mangeshkar

‘There is that much to be done that no select or small portion of people can do; only the greater mass of the Irish nation will ensure the achievement of a Socialist Republic, and this can only be done by hard work and sacrifice.’ – Bobby Sands

‘Working 24 hours a day isn’t enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it’s any less, they’re wrong, and they will fail.’ – Kevin O’Leary

‘There are mothers who sacrifice their dreams for family and feel terrible about it. There are mothers who are career women as well, without being apologetic about it.’ – Neena Gupta

‘The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.’ – Emma Goldman

‘It’s just the risk that I take and the sacrifice that I make: Putting myself, my career, my family’s peace of mind on the line just to do right by my fans. It ain’t no gray area: You’re either with that and willing to go out of your way to make people who contribute to your dreams coming true happy or you aren’t.’ – DaBaby

‘It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.’ – John Ruskin

‘The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness… but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.’ – David S. Rose

‘Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.’ – John White Geary

‘Courage shows itself in many different ways. A soldier heading off to war, a freedom fighter giving their life, or even a nurse braving a deadly virus as she heads to work in a hospital ward every day. Sometimes, though, courage does not require the ultimate sacrifice.’ – Julia Hartley-Brewer

‘I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.’ – John B. Hood

‘I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty.’ – Alija Izetbegovic

‘While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.’ – Hiram Rhodes Revels

‘What the Anzac legend did do, by the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, was reinforce our own cultural notions of independence, mateship, and ingenuity. Of resilience and courage in adversity.’ – Paul Keating

‘The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.’ – Jimi Hendrix

‘I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad… until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.’ – Mohammed Omar

‘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

‘I will fight till my last breath for the sake of 3.5 crore people of Telangana. I am ready to make any sacrifice for them.’ – Vijayashanti

‘Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.’ – Dean Kamen

‘The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who understands power politics. It’s always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.’ – Tucker Carlson

‘One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.’ – Thiruvalluvar

‘I think when you think about immigration, what we need to do is realize that that human capital, if put in a place to succeed, will literally sacrifice everything.’ – Chamath Palihapitiya

‘A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.’ – Nigel Short

‘Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win – preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.’ – John Rhys-Davies

‘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

‘Our nation is forever indebted to the brave men and women who laid it all on the line for our country, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our freedoms.’ – Raphael Warnock

‘The journey has definitely not been easy, but all the sacrifice has paid off very well in terms of my performance on-court.’ – Rohan Bopanna

‘Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘So often public service comes with sacrifice. A sacrifice that our men and women in uniform make each day.’ – Kim Reynolds

‘Football is about sacrifice, dedication, a lot of work, and friendship off the pitch.’ – Edinson Cavani

‘The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.’ – Voltaire

‘Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.’ – Tom Brokaw

‘No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Standing beside each one of our brave soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines is a loving, supportive, and dedicated family whose sacrifice is a true service to our great nation.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.’ – Pat Benatar

‘Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.’ – Yvette Clarke

‘For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.’ – Steve Buyer

‘The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.’ – Trey Anastasio

‘We should leave no stone unturned to protect and account for those who sacrifice so much in defense of everything this country stands for.’ – Ronny Jackson

‘An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.’ – Jose Marti

‘You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.’ – Rita Ora

‘I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.’ – Emil Cioran

‘Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.’ – Georges Bataille

‘If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.’ – Sadhu Vaswani

‘Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.’ – Michelle Obama

‘It’s all about leading – leading and hard work. You don’t get Eagle Scout by just showing up. You gotta put a lot of work in. Gotta sacrifice a lot of time. Put in a lot of weekends. Doing that taught me how to get serious, put my head down, and go to work.’ – Josh Hart

‘If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.’ – Josh McDowell

‘Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.’ – Robert E. Lee

‘Sustainability can’t be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.’ – Bjarke Ingels

‘I grew up in poverty and my mother had to sacrifice a lot for us to eat and get an education – just imagine in a house where we were more than six children! But hard work and dedication is what it took for me to be here today.’ – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

‘To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.’ – Simon Sinek

‘I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.’ – Louis Armstrong

‘Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘If the team needs you, you need to sacrifice.’ – Kylian Mbappe

‘You make sacrifices. You sacrifice yourself. Do you want to possibly win a championship? Or do you want to be the same person you were when you were 20 and get those same numbers?’ – Gary Payton

‘I give my roosters the best of food. I give them the best of care. I give them everything they want before I ask them to sacrifice. Get a rooster comfortable, and he’ll fight his ass off. That’s all I ask of HBO. They just can’t see that.’ – Roy Jones Jr.

‘In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis

‘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

‘America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.’ – Henry Rollins

‘I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.’ – Natalie Portman

‘Grudge no expense – yield to no opposition – forget fatigue – till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .’ – Maria Weston Chapman

‘Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one’s children.’ – William Bennett

‘Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what’s really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don’t let them go.’ – Miguel Sapochnik

‘Family is so central to Afghan life that all Afghan stories are family stories. Family is something I simply can’t resist because all the great themes of human life – duty, grief, sacrifice, love, envy – you find all those things within families.’ – Khaled Hosseini

‘The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete.’ – Johnny Weir

‘I told myself, if I sacrifice Young Dolph and never sign to a major label and I get Young Dolph hot? I’m going to earn and get all of these relationships and do a lot of networking. I’m gonna know the business, all the way, ins and outs.’ – Young Dolph

‘The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.’ – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

‘I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn’t occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.’ – Thor Heyerdahl

‘The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.’ – Tullian Tchividjian

‘Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can’t give us more than 24 hours of the day of time. And so we’re constantly having to sacrifice alternate activities to get the one that pleases us most.’ – Paul Samuelson

‘It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Living in Flint, poverty is an obstacle that you have to fight through. I always had to fend for my brother and sister – I was always the one to sacrifice my meals so that they could eat.’ – Claressa Shields

‘History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.’ – Tim Pawlenty

‘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

‘The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist.’ – Annie Besant

‘I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.’ – John Paul Jones

‘It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘A team will always appreciate a great individual if he’s willing to sacrifice for the group.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

‘What was accomplished in ‘Band of Brothers’ was incredible, from the writing and producing to the performances of the actors who honored all those men that fought bravely and gave the ultimate sacrifice for the freedoms we enjoy today.’ – Jon Seda

‘In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.’ – Robert Greene

‘I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can’t just be the girl who sang ‘I Kissed a Girl.’ I have to leave a legacy.’ – Katy Perry

‘I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, ‘I want to do that,’ and sacrifice the fact it might not be very good.’ – Colin Morgan

‘Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice.’ – Wangechi Mutu

‘It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.’ – Barack Obama

‘I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves in harm’s way for my freedom of speech and my freedoms in this country, and my freedom to take a seat or take a knee, so I have the utmost respect for them, and I think what I did was taken out of context and spun a different way.’ – Colin Kaepernick

‘No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were.’ – Anthony Kennedy

‘Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That’s the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.’ – Betty Dodson

‘During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.’ – Zbigniew Brzezinski

‘Christian life means sacrifice.’ – Pope John XXIII

‘I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife’s brother.’ – Charles Farrar Browne

‘In carrying out every aspect of our work, CIA officers are guided by a professional ethos that is the sum of our abiding principles, core values, and highest aspirations. These include service, integrity, excellence, courage, teamwork, and stewardship. Sacrifice, too, is an inescapable part of our mission.’ – Gina Haspel

‘It is not sacrifice if you love what you’re doing.’ – Mia Hamm

‘The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.’ – Patti Smith

‘Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don’t want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.’ – Michio Kaku

‘Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.’ – Lou Holtz

‘That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.’ – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

‘I couldn’t sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.’ – Kim Kardashian

‘You have to execute. You have to sacrifice your body.’ – Pedro Martinez

‘I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I’ve always wanted to do.’ – Brandy Norwood

‘What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.’ – Bruce Barton

‘I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.’ – Joyce Banda

‘With immigrant parents, they’ve had to sacrifice so much to survive, and they’re trying to preserve the culture they lost, so there are just so many boundaries.’ – Rupi Kaur

‘Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.’ – Mark Pryor

‘Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.’ – Theodore Parker

‘November is Native American Heritage month, and a good time to honor the legacy of our ancestors, but every day we should stop to think about our country’s beginning and that the United States would not exist if not for a great deal of sacrifice, blood, and tears by Indian Tribes across the country.’ – Deb Haaland

‘Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.’ – Germaine Greer

‘You don’t have to sacrifice your family to be a great coach.’ – Dabo Swinney

‘You sacrifice so much to get to the NFL. You miss recitals and graduations. Moments that you can’t have because you’re focused on being the best.’ – Shannon Sharpe

‘For me, ‘Lamb’ started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in ‘Coyote Blue’ and ‘Island of the Sequined Love Nun,’ but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.’ – Christopher Moore

‘It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country’s liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.’ – John Boyle O’Reilly

‘If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it’s more satisfying when you have struggled.’ – Andres Iniesta

‘Every day, at the end of the day, I ask myself, ‘Am I living my life worthy of the sacrifice and commitment the people who went before me made on my behalf?” – David Steward

‘All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.’ – Richard Gere

‘You shouldn’t change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If we sacrifice our values because we’re afraid, we don’t care very much about those values.’ – Edward Snowden

‘The truth is, gymnastics is a beautiful sport that has allowed me to grow and learn invaluable life lessons: sacrifice, dedication, discipline. Eventually, it led me to my voice.’ – Katelyn Ohashi

‘Like I can’t cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can’t let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.’ – Robert Smith

‘I don’t want to abandon one work for the other, and I don’t think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.’ – Aaliyah

‘An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too – at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.’ – Walter Bagehot

‘Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you’re paying attention and studying your art.’ – Marvin Hagler

‘The IWGP title makes me a legend. I’ve committed half my life to this, and it’s worth all the sacrifice. Not only was it worth it, but it was worth it and then some.’ – Kenny Omega

‘I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and – at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together – that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘My family has grown to love all of the Trumps because they are wonderful people willing to sacrifice much for their country.’ – Jerry Falwell, Jr.

‘If I make 140, I sacrifice a lot of things in my life: my diet, my training, my thyroid. It’s insane to make 140.’ – Cris Cyborg

‘I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston… I saw this man’s dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, ‘You either shape up or ship out.’ When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can’t ship out.’ – Thurgood Marshall

‘It’s easy to say, and a lot of people pay lip service, saying, ‘I want to win.’ But, well, everybody wants to win. What are you willing to sacrifice to be able to win? Are you going to sacrifice money? Are you going to sacrifice playing time? You gotta sacrifice something.’ – P. J. Tucker

‘I think there’s no sacrifice too great for family, whether it’s career, singing, whatever.’ – Anita Baker

‘Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘I try to send out a good message – I sometimes get asked for advice for leaving home and trying to ‘make it’ overseas. I would always say think long term, and think bigger picture: make the sacrifice.’ – Daniel Ricciardo

‘To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.’ – Oscar Pistorius

‘I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil’s Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they’ve been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.’ – N. Scott Momaday

‘I love Stone Sour. I love the music that we created. and it was a fun ride. But if I’m going to sacrifice all of my free time and my life for something, it has to be something that I a thousand-percent believe in, and something where I have a thousand-percent communication with everyone involved. And that something is Slipknot.’ – Jim Root

‘Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘There is no decision that we can make that doesn’t come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.’ – Simon Sinek

‘You have to sacrifice sometimes. There are so many things in life you might want to do, but you have to know when to let go.’ – Kris Wu

‘There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘The patriot subordinates himself to his State in order to raise it above all other States and thus, as it were, to find his personal sacrifice repaid with ample interest through the might and greatness of his fatherland.’ – Richard Wagner

‘In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.’ – James Anthony Froude

‘The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.’ – Marion Barry

‘Many times, you have to sacrifice the paycheck for doing what you love.’ – Vincent Rodriguez III

‘Nobody’s going to step in and dump a lot of money and make it easy. Unless you have a lot of money, you have to pay your dues and make a personal sacrifice.’ – Lonnie Johnson

‘I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn’t sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘The first thing you learn is sacrifice and how to keep moving forward in life, helping your parents to put food on the table. You learn to fight with your work. Then you start to learn values. That’s why, every time I pull on the Argentina shirt or any other, I think about the things that happened to me when I was a kid.’ – Angel Di Maria

‘I always sacrifice myself for the love of all my people.’ – Tech N9ne

‘You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.’ – Howard Schultz

‘I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.’ – Edward Dmytryk

‘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

‘Knowing that there is a community of people on every corner of this planet that believes in justice, that is willing to sacrifice, and that is willing to take a stand is the most heartening thing.’ – Opal Tometi

‘I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.’ – John Buford

‘At the end of the day that’s the only thing you can’t pay for, the thing you can’t get back. So you gotta learn to sacrifice that time to put something you trying to invest in.’ – Young Dolph

‘She died when I was 16 and I just think no history books, nothing is ever going to talk about my grandmother. She was kind of invisible. She couldn’t speak English so didn’t have many friends. I think of her any time I think of the word ‘sacrifice.” – Lee Isaac Chung

‘All commitments require sacrifice and hardship.’ – Adrien Brody

‘The American culture is pursue your own happiness, follow your dreams. The Chinese side is sacrifice everything for your family; it’s all about the group. Those conflicting ideas were always a battle in my head.’ – Jon M. Chu

‘My Tarkovsky idolatry was at its peak, but ‘Nostalghia’ really didn’t do anything for me. ‘The Sacrifice’ was similarly disappointing for me. Next thing we knew, he was dead.’ – Geoff Dyer

‘Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.’ – Tim Hetherington

‘Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus’ revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.’ – Chiang Kai-shek

‘I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.’ – Dalai Lama

‘It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life.’ – Lee Min-ho

‘You don’t have love without sacrifice; you can’t have sacrifice without love.’ – Karen Kingsbury

‘For a real New India to arise, all petty and small things must be given up. To be redeemed, all Indians must offer to sacrifice not only their good things, but all those evil things they cling to blindly – their hates and their divisions, their pride in what they should be thoroughly ashamed of, their quarrels and misunderstandings.’ – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

‘He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.’ – Saint Patrick

‘I used to think that the Civil War was our country’s greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.’ – Sam Ervin

‘A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can’t find in an army without morale.’ – Jalal Talabani

‘I don’t mind being the older guy that has to sacrifice and be the defensive anchor.’ – Roy Hibbert

‘Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.’ – Bob Latta

‘Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it’s always going to be the same.’ – Mel Gibson

‘If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I’m busy so they’ll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that’s very important.’ – Flo Rida

‘I loved doing ‘Teachers.’ I don’t know if it’s set me on a road, but it certainly got me out of financial penury for two years. But as much as I love it – and it’s a huge sacrifice – as much as I love it, I’m in acting because I’m searching to do lots of different things.’ – Raquel Cassidy

‘If I don’t have anything to sacrifice, I don’t have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.’ – Catherine Ndereba

‘I think there are a lot of people who are afraid to be who they are, and if I have to sacrifice a little bit of fame and a little bit of success because I’m being 100 percent truthful with who I am, hopefully that will create a paved way for someone else.’ – Todrick Hall

‘After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?’ – Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

‘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

‘I believe it is our duty in Congress to provide those who have served our nation with the highest level of care, and anything less is a dishonor to their sacrifice.’ – Ronny Jackson

‘It’s so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.’ – Freddie Prinze, Jr.

‘The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There’s no time to do anything else.’ – Chad le Clos

‘I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.’ – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

‘Whatever motivates the enemies of charter schools, you cannot describe it as anything but evil. How else do you characterize adults willing to sacrifice the welfare of powerless children to entrench their own power?’ – Miranda Devine

‘We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where?’ – Frances Beinecke

‘As someone who has put my life on hold, my personal life on hold, for Parliament and for public service for over a decade and a half, I really got to a culmination point where I had to make a decision to have more normality in my life, or sacrifice that entirely for a campaign that was going to be all consuming.’ – Pierre Poilievre

‘I’ve said it since the day he made the sacrifice to hit the campaign trail: Voters crave the anti-status-quo politician. Everything about Donald Trump’s campaign, it’s avant-garde. He is crushing it in the polls.’ – Sarah Palin

‘We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.’ – Lucy Lawless

‘We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.’ – Saddam Hussein

‘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.’ – Frederick William Robertson

‘Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘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

‘Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.’ – Leigh Hunt

‘Prosperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.’ – Mario Vargas Llosa

‘He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.’ – Henry Taylor

‘The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say – or their beliefs – or sex.’ – John Osborne

‘If you can’t stand a little sacrifice and you can’t stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we’re never going to straighten this country out.’ – Ross Perot

‘In the lexicon of the political class, the word ‘sacrifice’ means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.’ – George Will

‘Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.’ – Barbara Boxer

‘I’m in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.’ – Zack de la Rocha

‘The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy.’ – Ben Nelson

‘The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.’ – Orrin Hatch

‘My philosophy is, don’t take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.’ – Tim Robbins

‘Mankind deserves sacrifice – but not of mankind.’ – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

‘The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?’ – Larry Flynt

‘We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.’ – Susan Collins

‘Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I’m glad of it.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

‘The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this ‘vale of tears’.’ – Claude Vorilhon

‘America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.’ – Allen Boyd

‘The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.’ – Anne Perry

‘This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory – and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.’ – Victor Davis Hanson

‘Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice.’ – Lee Harvey Oswald

‘NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.’ – Slobodan Milosevic

‘Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.’ – Mike Ferguson

‘If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.’ – Auberon Herbert

‘The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.’ – Omar Bongo

‘There is pain and sacrifice in everyone’s world. That’s why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.’ – Suzanne Farrell

‘The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.’ – Felix Klein

‘When I’m working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.’ – Richard King

‘We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there’s nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.’ – Tom Tancredo

‘Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.’ – Matthew Simpson

‘In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.’ – Henry A. Wallace

‘This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.’ – Jim Walsh

‘It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.’ – Alva Noto

‘Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep?’ – Frank B. Kellogg

‘I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don’t see why they would have to anyway.’ – Mick Taylor

‘Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.’ – John M. McHugh

‘Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come.’ – Paul Cellucci

‘I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.’ – Alan Dean Foster

‘My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.’ – Lasse Hallstrom

‘Sometimes the band can’t fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I’ve also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.’ – John Otto

‘The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don’t waste a dime.’ – Laura Miller

‘Our nation’s military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation.’ – Leonard Boswell

‘That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.’ – Nassau William Senior

‘To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.’ – Brandi Chastain

‘Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don’t have to sacrifice.’ – Herbie Mann

‘A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.’ – Edward Sapir

‘The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.’ – James Otis

‘Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?’ – Sargent Shriver

‘I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.’ – Edward Everett

‘With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.’ – Dan Lipinski

‘The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.’ – Federica Montseny

‘In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.’ – Federica Montseny

‘I cry, sometimes, because I’m not 20 years younger, and I’m not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.’ – Oriana Fallaci

‘If you feel very deeply about something, it’s not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.’ – Trevor Nunn

‘Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq’s national unity government.’ – John Boehner

‘A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘At a family’s most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one’s sacrifice and service.’ – Dave Reichert

‘My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he’d sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.’ – Kit Bond

‘Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn’t want to do because the film was very theoretical – the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.’ – Isabelle Huppert

‘But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I’d be working on. I want to make sure I don’t sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.’ – Andre Braugher

‘We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.’ – Nick Lampson

‘We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.’ – Ernest Istook

‘No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.’ – Anatoly Karpov

‘Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess – players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.’ – Boris Spassky

‘I don’t think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.’ – Christy Turlington

‘Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.’ – Georges Duhamel

‘There is no rank in sacrifice.’ – Josephus Daniels

‘I really believe deep in my soul that we’re going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.’ – Zach Wamp

‘No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.’ – Ernest Renan

‘The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.’ – Alma Gluck

‘There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.’ – Stefan Zweig

‘The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.’ – Thomas Francis Meagher

‘The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.’ – Hugh Douglas

‘Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.’ – John Salazar

‘Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.’ – Tom Coburn

‘Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I’ve allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.’ – Bernadette Devlin

‘Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.’ – Dick Morris

‘Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.’ – Chris Christie

‘The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent.’ – Tom Coburn

‘We’re going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.’ – Debbie Wasserman Schultz

‘I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn’t want to sacrifice the ladies!’ – James McAvoy

‘Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don’t think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we’ve come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.’ – Chris Christie

‘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

‘Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything – but I’m ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o’clock at night.’ – Katherine Heigl

‘If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.’ – Catherine Ndereba

‘You don’t have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.’ – Bryan Clay

‘We can’t afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We’ve got to get it done. The future, the health, the life – our nation depends on it and it’s just foolish to think or act otherwise.’ – LeVar Burton

‘The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They’ve forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.’ – Maureen Dowd

‘As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that’s not a happy thing – I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that’s the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It’s worth it.’ – Bjorn Borg

‘Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that’s not just measured in words or gestures.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.’ – Dalai Lama

‘The people of New Jersey stepped up. They shared in the sacrifice. You know what else they did? They rewarded politicians who lead instead of politicians who pandered.’ – Chris Christie

‘Oregonians aren’t the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state’s National Guard.’ – Ron Wyden

‘When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they’re crazy, because ‘sacrifice’ infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.’ – Chris Rock

‘We can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that’s not just measured in words or gestures.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘The job of the government isn’t to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it’s to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.’ – Grover Norquist

‘No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours’ writing. Nothing.’ – J. K. Rowling

‘We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.’ – Jan Brewer

‘While eschewing emotion – and its companion, vulnerability – Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the ‘I feel your pain’ connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders’ intentions. If people believe you’re on their side, they will trust your decisions.’ – Dee Dee Myers

‘It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.’ – Vera Wang

‘You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.’ – Shimon Peres

‘If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven’t had to sacrifice anything.’ – Karlie Kloss

‘When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing – and listen to her recordings – it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn’t had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.’ – Marlo Thomas

‘We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people’s rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.’ – Ai Weiwei

‘My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.’ – Victor Cruz

‘Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.’ – Barney Frank

‘Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It’s a huge sacrifice.’ – David Duchovny

‘We don’t tend to write about disease in fiction – not just teen novels but all American novels – because it doesn’t fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.’ – John Green

‘Love is sacrifice.’ – David Oyelowo

‘The only reason to be in politics is public service. There’s no other reason. Frankly, if that’s the best job you can get in terms of money, that’s too bad, you know. Because frankly, it’s not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it’s a big sacrifice.’ – Malcolm Turnbull

‘Mitt Romney’s primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.’ – Jillian Michaels

”Looper’ is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It’s about finding love in the third act of your life. It’s about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.’ – Jason Reitman

‘I’ve met so many people of my son’s generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote about ‘what you can do for your country,’ doesn’t even seem to apply to so many people.’ – Steve Daines

‘I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense – the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.’ – Francine Pascal

‘It’s kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling – if they don’t keep our streets safe, if they aren’t there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?’ – Lisa Gardner

‘I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.’ – Bill Walton

‘I haven’t had a family, but I don’t think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.’ – Judith Jamison

‘Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it’s, it’s time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena.’ – Thaksin Shinawatra

‘The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.’ – Sadhu Vaswani

‘Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.’ – Sadhu Vaswani

‘All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice – the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows – awaits us within ourselves.’ – Guy Finley

‘You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It’s funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn’t go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.’ – Josh Turner

‘I wouldn’t sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I’m going to pass down to my kids, and that’s most important to me than anything else in the world. I can’t pass an acting career down to my children.’ – Dwight Henry

‘I’m so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.’ – Ben Foster

‘There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.’ – Matt Smith

‘Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.’ – Richard Paul Evans

‘There’s a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It’s just not the case.’ – Maynard Webb

‘Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.’ – Dave Hickey

‘Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we’ve been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.’ – Edward Snowden

‘Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn’t suitable and you’re kind of breaking your rules, but he’s attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn’t even realize what a sacrifice you’re making by being with him and he dumps you!’ – Janet Fitch

‘If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ’s transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.’ – Joni Eareckson Tada

‘If you don’t believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus’ sacrifice was not enough.’ – Jud Wilhite

‘Being an artist is not easy – I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It’s a huge sacrifice.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the place of sacrifice in life. And those things… they are rooted to the role of the man.’ – Vincent Nichols

‘You know, in some ways, the celibacy tradition goes back to the tribe of Levi and, certainly, sacrifice and the notion of sacrifice. In the Old Testament, the shedding of blood was for a man to perform. It was not for the woman, who gave life.’ – Vincent Nichols

‘Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.’ – Annie Besant

‘I’m happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that’s not too corny a thing to say. It’s probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that’s how I feel.’ – Jack Gleeson

‘The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one – of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.’ – Louis Sullivan

‘Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.’ – Viggo Mortensen

‘Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.’ – Chiang Kai-shek

‘Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn’t sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!’ – William Morris Hunt

‘It’s a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.’ – Dan Barber

‘Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.’ – Fred Wilson

‘I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.’ – George W. Romney

‘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

‘I just don’t want to be famous. I feel like there’s a lot of sacrifice in that I’m not really willing to make.’ – Missy Peregrym

‘I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they’re clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I’m not worried about whether I’m clever.’ – Amity Shlaes

‘When I hear other people’s stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my ‘Encyclopedia of Human Experience.’ The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.’ – Sarah Kay

‘Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it’s all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it’s about profit, jobs and competitive advantage.’ – Amory Lovins

‘What you’re willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love – at least it is for me.’ – Jada Pinkett Smith

‘Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don’t want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.’ – Andrew Scott

‘Whatever I feel comfortable in is usually what I’ll wear. I go to different events and premieres and walk the red carpet… those things are awkward enough on their own. You don’t want to be pulling up a top all night. I will sacrifice foot comfort though. I love high heels.’ – Mandy Moore

‘In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we’re willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future.’ – Gregory Stock

‘The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else – get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class – that’s your life, and it’s like that for a finite time, usually.’ – Anne-Marie Duff

‘There’s a lot of projection that if you’re in service then you shouldn’t look good. I’m no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I’ve dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?’ – Zainab Salbi

‘Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real – it happened when he was in Hell.’ – Joyce Meyer

”Nothin’ on You’ changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was.’ – B.o.B

‘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

‘I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.’ – Queen Rania of Jordan

‘Team sports, there’s always some kind of sacrifice happening… A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit… but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that’s a different beast.’ – Marc Blucas

‘I like singing practically more than anything else, and I want to be the best, but I don’t want to sacrifice time with my children.’ – Maria Doyle Kennedy

‘Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it’s a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.’ – Rani Mukerji

‘I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?’ – Michael Moore

‘If you have a great love of singing, supported by others’ fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.’ – Steven Spielberg

‘The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.’ – Al Gore

‘The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord’s continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that follow a religious narrative. We don’t burn witches anymore. Most people would consider that barbaric. We don’t sacrifice human beings, which was a religious act practiced by numerous cultures on this planet.’ – Greg Graffin

‘My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master’s degree. I’m glad I didn’t know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.’ – Regina Brett

‘I’m an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.’ – Andy Garcia

‘I’m not a person who would get up at 5 A.M. to write, but I could sacrifice my Friday night and just order in dinner, sit at home and get into it.’ – Lauren Weisberger

‘Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘Bringing good news is imparting hope to one’s fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.’ – Patti Smith

‘The people have given me their support; they have given me their trust and confidence. My colleagues have suffered a lot in order to give me support. I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we’re under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.’ – Harvey Fierstein

‘I’m fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.’ – Diane Ackerman

‘There’s so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man’s game. I think that’s why it’s so popular. That’s why so many blue-collar communities and people can really feel attracted to this because it is a blue-collar struggle that football players go through.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That’s been the misconception. It’s all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.’ – Warren Farrell

‘A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘I want young girls that I mentor and young girls all around the world who want to be a model to be able to see that there’s a great deal of sacrifice.’ – Jessica White

‘The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery – conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.’ – John Boyle O’Reilly

‘We engineered activity out of our lives in the name of convenience. We created foods that put fried, fatty, sweet, and salty ahead of fresh, natural, and healthy. We quickly sacrifice sleep to work longer hours in pursuit of the American Dream. Even when we do these things with good intentions, they have life-threatening consequences.’ – Tom Rath

‘It’s tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.’ – Tom Rath

‘Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first in their lives the kingdom of God.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘I always believed ‘The Fly’ to be a classic opera story. It’s a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.’ – Howard Shore

‘I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.’ – Zubin Mehta

‘Fixate your love on Him, be obedient to God’s word, and don’t seek the glory of this world. In doing these things, God will exalt you in this earth and you won’t have to sacrifice your soul for earthly crowns that will fade.’ – Monica Johnson

‘There are no moral lectures in ‘Lookaway, Lookaway;’ there aren’t even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance.’ – Cathleen Schine

‘Racing takes so much determination, guts, and sacrifice to be on top. I once craved, lived, and breathed racing. I can honestly say now, I’m ready to slow down and enjoy my life. Maybe I’ll cut loose and have a cheeseburger or some pizza. Those types of indulgencies are not allowed when you constantly have to monitor your weight.’ – Chantal Sutherland

‘The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.’ – Friedrich St. Florian

‘I have the greatest respect for single parents who struggle and sacrifice, trying against almost superhuman odds to hold the family together. They should be honored and helped in their heroic efforts. But any mother’s or father’s task is much easier where there are two functioning parents in the home.’ – James E. Faust

‘By requiring all 30 million Americans age 18 to 25 to perform two years of national service, in the military or civilian life, we will be asking for a shared sacrifice from all American citizens.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.’ – A. R. Rahman

‘The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.’ – Bill Gates

‘I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won’t need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.’ – Said Sayrafiezadeh

‘I don’t mind sacrifice. I don’t mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I’ve seen that. I didn’t have it.’ – Dominique Moceanu

‘Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It’s a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It’s a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you’re damn right it’s a true story.’ – Wendy Davis

‘Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again.’ – Stanley Hauerwas

‘I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because states like the United States depend on the story of our wars for our ability to narrate our history as a unified story.’ – Stanley Hauerwas

‘It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the terms of battle? War is a sacrificial system that creates its own justification.’ – Stanley Hauerwas

‘I think it is a mistake to focus – as we most often do – only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.’ – Stanley Hauerwas

‘Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘With sacrifice and work, anything can be done.’ – Angel Cabrera

‘Bike riding requires permanent sacrifice. It means training 11 months out of 12 and 110 days of racing, whatever the weather conditions. Early in life, I realised I did not have intellectual potential, so I dedicated myself to cycling.’ – Richard Virenque

‘Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘Mulan is so important in Chinese folklore – a fearless girl who cared about her family and country so much that she was willing to join the fight and sacrifice herself.’ – Ming-Na Wen

‘I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘I’m thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I’m prepared to make that sacrifice. That’s just the sort of dedicated writer I am.’ – Liane Moriarty

‘We are often told we can’t have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress – you don’t have to sacrifice one for the other.’ – Tyra Banks

‘I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the thought that you have to sacrifice being cool to believe in God.’ – Samuel Larsen

‘I know the word ‘sacrifice.” – Brian Kilmeade

‘I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.’ – Adrian Peterson

‘While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of Achilles.’ – Tim O’Reilly

‘After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control my weight without deprivation. I call my program ‘Somersizing,’ and Somersizing is not a diet. Diet is a nasty four-letter word that conjures up negative thoughts of sacrifice and obsession and guilt.’ – Suzanne Somers

‘Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.’ – Sebastian Coe

‘Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.’ – Antony Beevor

‘This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I’m not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.’ – Eric Holder

‘When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn’t immense work put in, and as if there wasn’t immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them.’ – Al Sharpton

‘I never really felt free to talk a lot about my family life because I don’t want to sacrifice anybody else’s privacy. If you look through the archives, you will see, for example, no pictures of my children. That is not because I don’t love them. I think I’ve been a really good dad; at least, I try to be.’ – Scott Turow

‘Some unifying principles bind all Christians: that God became a man and died for our sins, and that without that sacrifice, all of us would be doomed.’ – Marco Rubio

‘In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.’ – Thalia

‘I needed somebody to love me, and the people that I chose were my coaches. I would sacrifice my body to be successful for my coaches because I wanted them to love me, to respect me, to have positive feelings about me.’ – Steve Largent

‘A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.’ – Jahangir Khan

‘Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.’ – Li Keqiang

‘To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else. Writing is not a job; it is a lifestyle, and it is a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows. You need self-confidence and an iron carapace.’ – Virginia Henley

‘The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

‘Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you’re putting the cart before the horse.’ – Ted Naifeh

‘I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in ‘Talon,’ my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice, and what it means to be human… even if you’re not human.’ – Julie Kagawa

‘At first I moved from Sydney to Melbourne, because most of the comedy was shot in Melbourne, and then from Melbourne to Los Angeles – and you have to sacrifice stuff.’ – Rebel Wilson

‘You’ll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.’ – Ivan Glasenberg

‘I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.’ – Kacy Catanzaro

‘I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole.’ – Mario Cuomo

‘The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.’ – Rand Paul

‘After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?’ – Rand Paul

‘As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.’ – Nick Woodman

‘War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It’s good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.’ – Tim O’Brien

‘As Vermont’s senator and a member of the Budget Committee, I will not support a plan to reduce the deficit that does not call for shared sacrifice.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what’s important to us. That’s an idea that’s very central to Indian thinking.’ – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

‘I have been watching how Indian women are forced to do certain things, as the stories of sacrifice and devotion in mythology demand from them. And then there are inspiring stories about women like the Rani of Jhansi that offer women refreshing role models.’ – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

‘I concluded that all religions had the same foundation – a belief in the supernatural – a power above nature that man could influence by worship – by sacrifice and prayer.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘There has to be a way to live the life you’re accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.’ – Barry Sternlicht

‘Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they’re carrying with them. It’s such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it’s life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don’t engage in this user interface.’ – Astro Teller

‘Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It’s an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for.’ – Susan Vreeland

‘My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make.’ – Jose Antonio Vargas

‘One of the things that evangelicals do really, really well is to make giving a joyous, social enterprise. Too often, the world sees giving as a burden, a sacrifice, when in fact it’s more like an opportunity to help others and oneself at the same time.’ – Nicholas Kristof

‘The people of the FBI sacrifice much for their country, and I am proud to lead this organization of dedicated agents, analysts, and professional staff.’ – James Comey

‘What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future. You need wisdom to sacrifice something that is immediately useful or advantageous for the sake of something that will be important in the future.’ – Christian de Duve

‘Even in America, people have said again and again that they would be willing to sacrifice for a cleaner environment.’ – Helena Norberg-Hodge

‘After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.’ – Darin Strauss

‘The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today’s world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.’ – Ann Rinaldi

‘I like my body. I don’t want to have to change it for anything – even if that means I have to take a step down as a dancer. I don’t think I’m ever going to sacrifice my figure for anyone else to accept me.’ – Sarah Hay

‘Justin Smith was one of the most underrated players in the NFL for what he did. He would sacrifice and do the dirty work, then someone else would clean up off it.’ – John Madden

‘In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.’ – Jack Keane

‘For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully understood. It is the culmination of years of hard work and personal sacrifice.’ – Jay Samit

‘I don’t want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.’ – Misty Copeland

‘If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘You don’t ask people to sacrifice their lives until the nation has debated and committed to the mission. It’s immoral.’ – Tim Kaine

‘I’ve learned to be pragmatic, but I don’t sacrifice my principles, my values.’ – Xavier Becerra

‘I did not have a normal life. I’d be training when my sister would be at birthday parties and sleepovers. I finished high school by correspondence, basically working two full-time jobs. The last years were very, very tough. But I was willing to do that. It’s all about sacrifice.’ – Eugenie Bouchard

”The Lady’ is an incredible love story about how a family was cut off from each other, about sacrifice, about the ability to put the needs of million of people before your own.’ – Michelle Yeoh

‘The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front.’ – Michael Gove

‘During a time of war, we ask our troops to give their best even to the point of sacrificing their own lives. When compared against that, how much of a sacrifice is it for a president to engage in a possibly contentious debate with Congress about whether military action is a good idea?’ – Tim Kaine

‘While Congressional members face the political costs of debate on military action, our service members bear the human costs of those decisions. And if we choose to avoid debate, avoid accountability, avoid a hard decision, how can we demand that our military willingly sacrifice their very lives?’ – Tim Kaine

‘I’m enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.’ – T. C. Boyle

‘I feel like my mandate when I was elected was to go reduce the size of government, lower taxes, and increase freedom, and freedom isn’t free, and sometimes you have to make a small sacrifice to move forward with what you’re after.’ – Blake Farenthold

‘Veterans Day is an acknowledgment that those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country – and their families – deserve our admiration and respect today and every day.’ – Elizabeth Esty

‘On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.’ – Bill Flores

‘We need to stop this overspending. We need to start turning this battleship in the right direction. And we all have to share in the sacrifice.’ – Jeff Fortenberry

‘We know there isn’t anything we can say or do that will bring their loved one back. What we can do is support them and honor their sacrifice by doing everything we can, every day, to make our communities stronger and our nation better so that we may be a people worthy of their sacrifices.’ – Chris Gibson

‘I get along with people. But I don’t sacrifice my principles either.’ – Phil Gingrey

‘Saints are ordinary people who love Jesus, try to be like him, are faithful to the duties of their state in life, sacrifice themselves for their neighbor, and keep their hearts and minds free of this world.’ – Mother Angelica

‘I call on the Western democracies and primarily on the leader of the free world, the United States: Do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938, when enlightened European democracies decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a convenient temporary solution… Israel will not be Czechoslovakia.’ – Ariel Sharon

‘Latinos are learning English. That doesn’t mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.’ – Ilan Stavans

‘Being a movie star isn’t easy. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Your career goes through extreme ups and downs. You are judged all the time. Great things are written about you, but at the same time, not-so-good things are also said. At times, things are said about you that are completely untrue, and people mostly try to pull you down.’ – Deepika Padukone

‘Because I knew how hard I worked, I knew the pain, I knew the sacrifice, I knew the tears, I knew everything. Despite everything, I stuck to it. I toughed it out, and I kept my head in the game, even when the odds were against me.’ – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

‘We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.’ – Stephen Curry

‘I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.’ – Stephen Curry

‘As we look at the many problems we face in treating our veterans in a manner befitting their service and sacrifice, it’s time we commit ourselves as a nation to applying the kind of resources and military precision necessary to finally make things right.’ – Chuck Norris

‘I like to be busy. It’s not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it’s definitely worth the sacrifice.’ – Venus Williams

‘The age of the Earth makes no difference with respect to Christ’s atoning sacrifice for humanity’s sin or to the nature and character of God, Earth’s age has no bearing on any of the historic Christian doctrines. No mention of Earth’s age appears in even the most detailed creedal statements.’ – Hugh Ross

‘When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.’ – DJ Khaled

‘The sacrifice of the brave men and women of the military and their families allows us to be safe, and we are grateful.’ – Matt Mead

‘I stand here today – in the shadow of my parents’ and grandparents’ accomplishments – because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future.’ – David Ige

‘As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.’ – Burgess Owens

‘So much of football relates to Christian life – sacrifice, commitment, discipline.’ – Benjamin Watson

‘One of the reasons I’m reluctant to start a novel is it’s such an obsessive activity. You get in there, you don’t know anything else while you’re in there. And that’s quite a sacrifice to make, especially for us old guys where time is kind of short. You don’t want to disappear for a year; you want to be outdoors.’ – Thomas McGuane

‘At the New York Harvard Club, they’ve moved the memorial for those who died in World Wars I and II up to an obscure little hallway; they used to be in the main hall, in the most prominent location. The sacrifice of those young people I always found so stunning and so admirable.’ – Whit Stillman

‘Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I’ve grown up with is tough but also very freeing.’ – Paul Walker

‘Boys are quite often whimsical. Whereas girls are modest by nature and know their responsibilities very well. Their weapons are service, sacrifice, and love, by which they conquer over the males.’ – Munshi Premchand

‘You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I’ve done it with ‘Pawn Sacrifice.” – Edward Zwick

‘I get love from fans in a big enough dosage that it acts as a shield, and I would not sacrifice that love in order to please the industry.’ – Jeremy Scott

‘President Obama’s astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of American men and women.’ – Mitt Romney

‘My belief is that the nation-state remains the one entity that can function, the one entity that can demand sacrifice from its constituents in the national interest.’ – Jeff Sessions

‘You don’t have to wait for your career to take off to become a mum: that’s kind of what I want to show. Becoming a mum made me even more driven, and I think it doesn’t stop your career – it just boosts it. It makes you well-organised, and with a little bit of sacrifice, of course you can do it all.’ – Julia Restoin Roitfeld

‘I’ve been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.’ – Ryan Zinke

‘I have seen America’s sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and pay the ultimate sacrifice to defend us.’ – Ryan Zinke

‘As much as I would love to do roles in big movies and am keen to establish myself in the industry. I don’t want to sacrifice things that I really enjoy, like spending time with my family and friends.’ – Will Poulter

‘There’s plenty of talented women. Why do men take over the important positions? It’s simple. Love, family, children – a woman doesn’t want to sacrifice all of that.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not as important as the message you want to leave.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.’ – Bhagat Singh

‘I don’t want football to not be played, but I would like the sophistication brought forth to take care of those who need to be taken care of and to take the precaution, at the sacrifice of winning, to take care of people.’ – Jim Brown

‘I have learned to make a lot of effort and sacrifice for this sport, and now I can say it’s paying me back. So it is important to always show determination and effort on the pitch.’ – Stephan El Shaarawy

‘I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That’s my aim.’ – Qandeel Baloch

‘I could sit at home, watch TV, and go for the odd run. But to be the best, you have to make this sacrifice, keep going away and doing blocks of training in the mountains.’ – Mo Farah

‘There’s plenty of days when I don’t want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.’ – J. J. Watt

‘It used to upset me – now it makes me sad – to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.’ – Tamron Hall

‘I just want my career to be ran a certain way. When you get the sense it’s not, that your voice is not being heard, then, unfortunately, you have to do certain things to make a stand to fight what you believe in, even if you do have to sacrifice time.’ – Andre Ward

‘Housewives run the home and sacrifice a lot, but many people forget that.’ – Arjun Kapoor

‘If there’s a country, and it’s dangerous, and we deploy a U.S. military man or woman, if there’s only one there, and they never leave the capital, that is ‘boots on the ground.’ We do a disservice to the sacrifice of these people, particularly if they are killed, when we say there’s no boots on the ground.’ – John F. Kelly

‘I don’t want the bottom, so I have to sacrifice the top.’ – Chuck Berry

‘Here is the problem with legacy: You’ll sacrifice stuff that is not even yours to get it. Take President Obama’s Iran deal, when he gave the shirt off his back – and ours, too.’ – Greg Gutfeld

‘The joy of my heart is to ‘study men, their manners, and their ways,’ and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.’ – Robert Burns

‘Our interests lie in attracting added value and talent to France as a result of Brexit, but also in having a balanced relationship with Great Britain. We must not sacrifice the short term for our bilateral relationship.’ – Emmanuel Macron

‘I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, ‘Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?” – Hozier

‘One of the principles of the Trump administration is that we will never sacrifice our economy on the altar of foreign policy.’ – Peter Navarro

‘My parents fled from a Cuban dictatorship in search of freedom. Growing up, I saw my parents struggle… I am here today because of them. My success is their success. Their sacrifice and perseverance made my education possible.’ – Alexander Acosta

‘No matter how many times you’ve seen the movies and the TV shows that have a protagonist leaping in the path of a bullet, physics forbids such sacrifice. Because of a bullet’s radical speed, you can’t jump in front of it, but you could get in its way. It’s not as dramatic, but it does save lives.’ – Kyle Hill

‘A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others’ development.’ – Zbigniew Brzezinski

‘My kids gotta understand: they gotta make a sacrifice, having a superstar dad.’ – Future

‘While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.’ – Marc Veasey

‘Being a mom was a full-time job. I was never willing to sacrifice everything for my career.’ – Patty Smyth

‘I don’t want to sacrifice my life, as I feel that I’m still very selfish and still want to pursue my dreams.’ – Joanna Krupa

‘I can’t give up and sacrifice my career, my future for a man, especially being engaged for so many years.’ – Joanna Krupa

‘If you truly want to find a meaningful relationship, you’ve got to find yourself first and learn to be confident in your own skin. Don’t sacrifice anything about who you are to be with someone. That’s setting yourself up for failure.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn’t have to sacrifice anything that I didn’t want to give up.’ – Gaby Hoffmann

‘I am angry when I hear things like Cheney whispering into Bush’s ear on the way to Obama’s inauguration to ask him to pardon ‘Scooter’ Libby and not to ‘leave a soldier on the battlefield’. What kind of metaphor is that for his petty partisan views, when you have men and women giving the ultimate sacrifice? I have nothing but contempt.’ – Valerie Plame

‘With this sort of career, you need determination. You’ve got to sacrifice a lot of things: family, friends – not that I had any – but you sacrifice everything.’ – Benjamin Clementine

‘As a baby boomer myself, I can tell you we are part of the have-it-all generation. We pretend never to age and often do our best to avoid sacrifice.’ – Anthony Scaramucci

‘There’s sacrifice involved. Either you’re going to work a lot and not get to spend time with your kid, or you’re going to spend a ton of time with your kid, and you’re sacrificing your career.’ – Cobie Smulders

‘Fine Gael needs to be Fine Gael and needs to stand its ground. It should not sacrifice its politics for position in government.’ – Leo Varadkar

‘I am not going to disconnect from Bollywood or sacrifice my career in the industry for international projects. Everything began here, and I respect that.’ – Ali Fazal

‘How can we say we’re for family values when so many women in the United States have to jeopardize their livelihood to take a few weeks off from work after giving birth? Should a man have to sacrifice his economic security to take care of his sick mother or his wife returning wounded from active duty?’ – Tom Perez

‘We can no more condone the wastefulness of self-serving company executives than we can the sacrifice of the lives of our citizens in a senseless war.’ – Jared Polis

‘I don’t believe in management by fear. I also won’t sacrifice the future of a company for a quarter.’ – Sandra E. Peterson

‘Always take the high road. You never sacrifice your team. You sacrifice yourself for your team.’ – Leanne Caret

‘The most important thing is always to feel comfortable – I would never sacrifice function for style.’ – Ana Ivanovic

‘To serve in the modern military – or to be the uncle, parent or sibling of one who does – is to treat the necessary service and sacrifice of war with a sacred honor. In my community, we pile into cars and drive hundreds of miles to watch our children’s graduation from basic training.’ – J. D. Vance

‘I am proud of my service and proud of those who served alongside me. But war is about more than service and sacrifice – it’s about winning.’ – J. D. Vance

‘Our military personnel sacrifice for us, and we need to stand up for them.’ – Lois Frankel

‘Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden’s most notable accomplishment was lying about his military service, his experience, and education to procure a job with the NSA in the first place.’ – Pete Hoekstra

‘Jesus means life to me. Jesus is our savior. When I think about Jesus, I think about the sacrifice He made so that we may have eternal life. I can certainly tell you I’m not afraid to die, and I certainly have a peace about my life.’ – Jake Peavy

‘In marriage, you sacrifice the adrenaline rush of seeing someone new for the comfort of being with someone who knows everything about you and loves you anyway.’ – Amanda de Cadenet

‘In life, you’ll often find that having influence and providing sound advice is a good thing, even if it attracts criticism or requires some sacrifice.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman

‘We’re used to a story in modern terms as an information delivery device. Certainly on television and even with the studio films, there’s really only one note that you get, and that’s clarity. And people will sacrifice everything for clarity. They’ll sacrifice the joke. They’ll sacrifice the moment, or the romance.’ – Noah Hawley

‘No matter where people stand on the policies that led to the conflicts, Americans recognize the depth of sacrifice and patriotism of our men and women in uniform. Everyone agrees these heroes deserve every advantage we can give them.’ – Bobby Kotick

‘We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment.’ – Rose McGowan

‘I had my daughter when I was pretty young, 28, and I had to sacrifice not going out with my friends, and I had to figure out how to juggle both raising her and also a very demanding job.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘Memorial Day is all about celebrating the lives of the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. The United States is made great because of their heroism. Their lives are remembered, honored, and celebrated by all of us, including the friends, family, and fellow service members who knew them best.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘My parents made a great sacrifice to make sure that we had something wonderful at Christmas, and through the help of the state and others, we were able to have a good meal.’ – Jesse White

‘The perseverance and the strength and the determination and the sacrifice that so many millions of people have had to endure to form this country is far greater than anything that we can really imagine.’ – Nancy Dubuc

‘In the end, will truth matter? Of course truth will matter. Truth isn’t relative. But there’s going to be a great sacrifice on the way to getting truth to matter to us again, to finding out why it does, and God knows what shape that sacrifice will take.’ – Ali Smith

‘At the end of the day in our sport, you just have to sacrifice yourself completely to put the team first. That’s not easy for us because we’re so competitive, but that’s the most important thing when it comes to World Championships.’ – Christen Press

‘Unfortunately, some younger player doesn’t understand that if you want to get through, you have to sacrifice, you have to work hard, and there is no easy way.’ – Stan Wawrinka

‘The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.’ – Colson Whitehead

‘Dieting is odious and can require years of determination and sacrifice. I entirely understand the impulse to say, ‘Screw it,’ and have another piece of cake.’ – Lionel Shriver

‘TV is really, really, really hard work. You sacrifice a lot of your personal life, a lot of your sanity, just to do one show.’ – Julie Plec

‘I commend the parents who are sending their children to a Catholic school, because they’re making a sacrifice, and they’re paying twice for their child’s education: They’re paying the tuition, and they’re paying taxes.’ – Blase J. Cupich

‘It was not easy, but I think Girls’ Generation members showed each other a lot of sacrifice, dedication, and responsibility.’ – Tiffany Hwang

‘I think most people agree with the idea of shared sacrifice, but for many, when push comes to shove, that principle goes out the window.’ – Whitney Tilson

‘Look at the world, all the suffering… Being under house arrest is the least I can sacrifice.’ – Asma Jahangir

‘Don’t sacrifice alone time with your spouse just because the kids seem needy. A united front requires adult time alone, so put it in the calendar and make it a priority. A house cannot stand on a shaky foundation.’ – Emily V. Gordon

‘It’s not like I was just dropped onto a snowboard and I was able to go 15 feet into the air. There was a lot of hard work that came with it. That’s something that people don’t really notice sometimes and the amount of sacrifice my family made.’ – Chloe Kim

‘In the past, action to combat climate change was viewed largely as running counter to economic growth, with ‘going green’ implying a sacrifice of prosperity for the sake of the environment. Today, we know better.’ – Guy Ryder

‘If I would have to sacrifice R&D investments to fulfill a goal, that would be the wrong goal to have.’ – Borje Ekholm

‘Without the rebellious heart, without people who understand that there’s no sacrifice we can make that is too great to retrieve that which we’ve lost, we will forever be distracted with possessions and trinkets and title.’ – Harry Belafonte

‘I did sacrifice a goat. I know that’s probably a quibble in the mind of most Americans.’ – Augustus Sol Invictus

‘If we can sacrifice something comfortable, that we’re ‘too good at,’ that might even be holding us back, we’ll have more room to grow into the person we want to be.’ – Marshall Goldsmith

‘If we really want to change the way Americans eat, we need to make delicious, sustainably-raised food accessible to everyone. Most people are not willing to sacrifice taste or pay a lot more when it comes to eating better. That’s why the Chipotle model is so important.’ – Steve Ells

‘You work hard, you sacrifice for everything you do, and in one second, someone can tarnish your name – someone can bad-mouth you, and someone can say things. People let all of the good things gets washed away because someone spoke ill of them.’ – Karen Civil

‘I believe London is the city New York wants to be when it grows up. I love the wealth of cultural resources that a city of that size can offer. I also believe I don’t have to sacrifice all of my standards for human behavior to avail myself of them.’ – Harry Shearer

‘It’s a sacrifice for me. It’s not really something I want to do. I don’t love the idea of being a U.S. senator; I love the idea of being a mother.’ – Wendy Long

‘I believe in the idea of sacrifice and fighting for what’s right and giving something back to the country that’s given me so much.’ – Wendy Long

‘I love sleep so much. That’s the one thing I won’t sacrifice. I really cannot.’ – Bozoma Saint John

‘Often, when we support the ‘right’ causes and candidates, we fail to recognize that with progress comes sacrifice. That sacrifice might mean that you are no longer the obvious choice for the job. Your job security may no longer be a given.’ – Nina Shaw

‘I see my friends who have superstar lifestyles, and it’s great to have hundreds of millions of dollars, but at the same time, it’s a sacrifice of your own sanity.’ – Poo Bear

‘I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.’ – Poo Bear

‘When I look at our communities, our country, our justice system, those are things I want to change and I’m committed to changing, and that’s going to take sacrifice. Laying the foundation is the hardest part and requires a lot of sacrifice and time.’ – Malcolm Jenkins

‘At the start of my career – not just Me Too, which is not the totality of my career – I wish I would have known that you don’t have to sacrifice everything for a cause. And that self-care and self-preservation is also a tool that is necessary to do the work.’ – Tarana Burke

‘My sophomore year at high school, I spent $300 I had earned working at After School Matters for my first studio session. For a 16-year-old to sacrifice that much money was pivotal. It spoke a lot about how serious I was.’ – Ravyn Lenae

‘Wrestling encompasses hard work, dedication, sacrifice, and determination – there’s just nothing like it in any sport.’ – Tito Ortiz

‘There’s all these costs of war, and they’re huge and long-lasting. It’s not just the numbers CNN broadcasts. And we never want to pay the VA bill; we never want to pay the bill to take care of these warriors after we applaud their sacrifice.’ – Debra Granik

‘People see the nice side of the game, but behind it all, there is a sacrifice that they don’t see: the pressure, the repercussion, the way that impinges on your life.’ – Cesar Azpilicueta

‘To be sure, the United States will be eternally proud of our civilian leaders and the men and women of our armed forces who served in World War II for their sacrifice at a time of maximum peril to our country and our world.’ – Ben Rhodes

‘In an industry that celebrates personal sacrifice as a symbol of commitment, you might not consider ‘making sure everyone gets home for dinner’ to be a mark of success, but creating and maintaining that culture is one of the things I’m most proud of.’ – David Einhorn

‘For the sake of calm in the country, I am ready to sacrifice my own sanity.’ – Alexander Lukashenko

‘No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women’s stories I heard as a child.’ – Svetlana Alexievich

‘I was a rapper. The reason I stopped rapping was because I realized that people wanted guys like Puff Daddy. That’s not what I do. I quit. That was it. I had to sacrifice for my choice. I said, ‘Forget it. I’ll be a producer.’ Nobody was going to make me do anything.’ – No I.D.

‘Maher Arar’s case stands as a sad example of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security, when doing so only undermines the principles we stand for and makes us less safe.’ – Patrick Leahy

‘Any person in a relationship has to see what they gain from those things and if it’s worth what you have to sacrifice to be in a relationship. I don’t think that’s a terrible thing.’ – Miriam Shor

‘Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone.’ – Kim Brooks

‘I don’t want to believe it – that parenting itself makes art hard, that you must always sacrifice one for the other, that there is something inherently selfish and greedy and darkly obsessive in the desire to care as much about the thing you are writing or making as you do about the other humans in your life. What parent would want to believe this?’ – Kim Brooks

‘When I was writing my first book, ‘In Harm’s Way,’ I witnessed the sense of sacrifice that those WWII veterans possessed. I was surprised that sometimes their grandchildren hadn’t talked to them about the historic events of that night in July 1945, when the USS Indianapolis went down.’ – Doug Stanton

‘What we do in WWE is not a sacrifice. Being out on the road all the time, and all the bumps and bruises, that sort of thing is difficult but also a joy and a pleasure. It’s brought so much happiness into my life. I wouldn’t have it any other way.’ – Kane

‘Hard work and sacrifice can get you a long way.’ – Cain Velasquez

‘If you want to learn and to become somebody, you must sacrifice some things.’ – James Rodriguez

‘Things aren’t gifted to you. Things don’t just come from an idea, from nothing. You have to work for them. You have to pursue them. You have to take time. You have to sacrifice.’ – Ozuna

‘I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists who are preoccupied; they don’t have as much time as they used to to be in the studio.’ – Rick Ross

‘Everybody says they want to win. But when you start talking about sacrifice and doing what’s right for the team, it’s like, ‘Wait a minute, I didn’t mean that. I want to win, but…’ There’s always a conjunction with that. It’s never what you think it is. And it’s always, like, your weakest point where you got to do it.’ – Chris Bosh

‘People wonder why I dislike my opponents. It’s not personal or that I hate them: it’s just that I know what I’ve had to sacrifice to face them.’ – Tony Bellew

‘Sometimes you have to sacrifice your pride to really go after what you want.’ – Danielle Brooks

‘My mom did so much for us, working two jobs, driving us where we needed to go and a million other things. She taught me the importance of hard work and sacrifice.’ – Kyle Kuzma

‘I’m saying right now that if you’re going to serve this nation in a federal position, you need to start proving that you’re willing to sacrifice first. I’m saying… that people are sick and tired of the millionaires running the system.’ – Richard Ojeda

‘Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.’ – Shaun King

‘I have a life of sacrifice. I don’t have a normal social life.’ – Vitor Belfort

‘Everything you do involves sacrifice. My work is to honor my principles, my opponent, and what I believe in. I stand for it, I fight, and I try to get better every day as a human being.’ – Vitor Belfort

‘Sometimes, you have to sacrifice your talent to please the public.’ – Govinda

‘I think, a lot of guys who want to be professional football players, they see the Premiership players, and they see the finished article, but there’s a lot of hard work that’s gone into their careers for them to get there. There’s a lot of sacrifice, and I think people tend to forget that.’ – Chris Coleman

‘Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right.’ – Chris Coleman

‘No one is willing to sacrifice themselves for Maduro or take up arms to fight for him.’ – Juan Guaido

‘In Venezuela, we have movement for freedom, for democracy, that has taken years and sacrifice to build, and a majority through protests to win elections to align ourselves with the world that recognizes the fight for democracy in Venezuela.’ – Juan Guaido

‘Players want to play a lot of rugby. We’re walking contradictions at times in that we want to play a lot of rugby, but we don’t want to play too much rugby, and we want to be available for all the big games, yet there are times when you have to sacrifice that because of game limits.’ – Alun Wyn Jones

‘My dad taught me how to play tennis, and I owe that to him. But the better you get, the higher you climb, and the more lonely you get. I’ve had to sacrifice a lot of personal relationships, but that’s the choice I made.’ – Grigor Dimitrov

‘We’ve got to get everybody to sacrifice, be on same page, be a team.’ – Ben Howland

‘We ask our men and our women to go overseas to fight for our country and sacrifice so much for this great country so that we can be the land of the free, the land of the brave.’ – Ainsley Earhardt

‘If we want to win, we’re not going to be able to go out on the court and say, ‘My turn’ or ‘Your turn.’ We’re going to have to play together and sacrifice some shots, some ball touches, some minutes.’ – Khris Middleton

‘I’ve played a long time and had success in a lot of areas. The one thing that eludes a lot of us is a championship. The teams that get there have guys willing to make adjustments, to sacrifice. I’m willing.’ – Chris Mullin

‘When you are 25, everything comes easy to you. When you get past 35, every training session is a sacrifice. I can’t see myself doing that.’ – Wojciech Szczesny

‘My husband is very fortunate to be part of the government. It is a great honor and privilege, and in no way is his work, or my part in this, any kind of sacrifice.’ – Louise Linton

‘You have to sacrifice time with your family, your time as a teenager. You don’t experience life like any other, outside of football. When you go to uni, you can’t live the uni lifestyle. But I’ve never, ever thought about quitting football.’ – Nikita Parris

‘You’ve got to have dedication because there’s a lot of sacrifice which goes into it – a lot of your time is minimal with friends and family, especially in the past 10 years.’ – Nikita Parris

‘It’s been really stressful being on the road a lot, especially when you’re a dad. You miss your son a lot. But you gotta make it work because you get to live a good life. I have to sacrifice.’ – Jo Koy

‘We cannot sacrifice our humanity in the name of security – or we risk losing both.’ – Beto O’Rourke

‘The best way to honor our troops, the less than 1% of our country’s population who voluntarily put their lives on the line in service to our country, is by making sure that when they are sent into combat, it is the last option, not the first, and that the mission is worthy of their great sacrifice.’ – Tulsi Gabbard

‘I’m bothered when people don’t understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.’ – Cory Booker

‘We are at our best when we give the ultimate sacrifice of putting other people, putting the country, putting our communities ahead of ourselves.’ – Cory Booker

‘There’s men and women who sacrifice and do so much for us so I can go out and play a game of golf and live my life under freedom.’ – Gary Woodland

‘The joy of doing the TV or something like ‘Sacrifice’ isn’t really the process of doing it; the joy is going through this real-life experience.’ – Derren Brown

‘A space nerd as a kid, I learned early that putting a man on the moon took American unity, grit, determination, teamwork, hardship, innovation, sacrifice and patriotism.’ – Katie Pavlich

‘I’m a human sacrifice. I put myself out there for the people, and hopefully they take the good and the positivity from that.’ – Lil B

‘It’s so astounding the amount of sacrifice the astronauts have to go through to do what they do and all the science involved in space exploration.’ – Jihae

‘That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.’ – Lando Norris

‘All mothers sacrifice so much for their kids. So, I think it is the job of a mother that deserves the highest salary.’ – Manushi Chhillar

‘Too many times I have had to sacrifice a trophy or the chance of winning one because the owners have said you have to stay in the Premier League at all costs.’ – Sam Allardyce

‘We should not allow our republic, which was established with our sacrifice, to disintegrate. This would amount to disrespect for the heroes who sacrificed everything for the Republic of Indonesia.’ – Suharto

‘I love food and don’t want to sacrifice my enjoyment to be healthy. You can enjoy food and can be mindful and healthy while you do it but it just takes a little time and effort.’ – Austin Aries

‘It does take a lot of effort to perform, playing for England. It’s a huge amount of sacrifice to do and one day I might just wake up and say ‘you know what, I’m done with it.” – Alastair Cook

‘I think a lot of winning a Super Bowl is being at the right place at the right time. It’s sacrifice, it’s making team plays and being an impactful player is part of it.’ – Chris Long

‘My unglittering football career came to a halt at the age at 30, and I had to embark on a coaching career: 14 years of hard work and sacrifice, learning and mistakes.’ – Graham Potter

‘Honestly, it takes a lot of dedication and sacrifice. When I was trying to get better a couple years ago, I was not going out. I had a couple of people get mad at me. I wasn’t going out and partying, I was just doing what I had to do to get better.’ – Murda Beatz

‘My father would always say Kashmiris have made so much sacrifice to achieve something more, but we have a constitution, special status and a flag, and our foremost duty is to protect what we have.’ – Mehbooba Mufti

‘If someone is going to spend a whole game marking you, then there may be games when I will have to sacrifice myself for the team and take them away and create space for a team-mate.’ – John McGinn

‘Even coming from Ghana to the United States, my mom and dad did so much to provide a better life for their kids. It was such a huge sacrifice; leaving your entire family – and we have a huge family – leaving them to come to America and have a better life for their kids.’ – Kofi Kingston

‘Thank God there has been no recurrence of 9/11. It is not because of luck – it is because of mass sacrifice and effort.’ – Ashraf Ghani

‘He had a sort of positive effect – you saw Salah and wanted to work harder. Talent and sacrifice.’ – Gervinho

‘My parents’ sacrifice and hard work obligated me to be successful, it wasn’t an option to fail.’ – Wayne Messam

‘Sacrifice is the 1.3 million active duty men and women in the U.S. military and 800,000 reserve forces who volunteer to keep us safe and defend our way of life.’ – S.E. Cupp

‘Sacrifice is a leader who puts the needs of millions of others before his own, who can forgo ego and pride in order to do what he promised he would. It’s rising above pettiness and partisanship for the good of the country.’ – S.E. Cupp

‘Sacrifice is putting country before party and principles before politics. It is not defending the indefensible, protecting the powerful, or staying silent in the face of injustice just because you’d like to keep your job.’ – S.E. Cupp

‘Cricket keeps me away from classes, and home, for long periods at a time. But talking to friends and family helps, it is a sacrifice I have to make, because I love cricket.’ – Stuart Binny

‘Those who talk about the sacrifices that they make throughout a career, I do not understand too much. For me, the real sacrifice would be getting up early in the morning to work.’ – Kylian Mbappe

‘My favorite thing is when we lift a trophy. Afterward, we can have a picture of us lifting a trophy. And that picture shows a lot of work, a lot of difficulty and a lot of sacrifice together.’ – N’Golo Kante

‘There’s so many people who’ve built America, much greater in sacrifice and contributions than Silicon Valley. There are people who’ve died for this country. There are people who have marched for civil rights in this country.’ – Ro Khanna

‘Each January, I put God first and honor him with the first of our substance by sowing a first fruits offering of one month’s pay. That is a big sacrifice, but it is a seed for the harvest I am believing for in the coming year. And God always provides!’ – Paula White

‘It is difficult to be a law enforcement family. You shoulder the stresses and challenges involved in your loved one’s profession. You make a sacrifice, too.’ – William Barr

‘Our greatest strength in our fight for justice is our people – the thousands of men and women who have dedicated their careers, often at great personal sacrifice, to working for justice in America.’ – William Barr

‘People look down on teen moms and young mothers when they are the most gracious and significant women on this Earth. They sacrifice their freedom and their lives to give life.’ – Princess Nokia

‘I know that being in the entertainment business… my first son, I had to sacrifice being away, being on tour a lot and I wasn’t really present.’ – Taboo

‘Everyone says they support our troops and thank you for their service, if they really want to support their troops, demand better. Demand that their sacrifice not be wasted. That we not just muddle along as some of the generals have called for.’ – Erik Prince

‘We have kind of turned our back on the fact that hard work, sacrifice, risk-taking, innovation, is what made America great.’ – Erik Prince

‘I don’t want to sacrifice and be a backup to be a Charger. That’s not something I want to do or I’m going to do.’ – Philip Rivers

‘Touring is such a major sacrifice, especially as you get older, to be away from friends and family and home and any sort of routine or home comforts.’ – KT Tunstall

‘I’m a team player who needs to work a lot and sacrifice myself for the success of the group.’ – Sergio Busquets

‘As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine.’ – George Monbiot

‘When leaders choose to burn bridges instead of build them, they sacrifice their ability to do their jobs.’ – Charlie Baker

‘Virat is in your face, he wants to dominate and has a work ethic like no one else. Whether it comes to discipline, training, sacrifice or self-denial, it is unbelievable.’ – Ravi Shastri

‘Turkey is a warning: democracy is precious but fragile. It underlines how rights and freedoms are often won at great cost and sacrifice but can be stripped away by regimes exploiting national crises.’ – Owen Jones

‘The iconic life of Nelson Mandela is testament to the fact that the road to freedom is quite often long and fraught with great personal sacrifice.’ – Kerry Kennedy

‘They are very different in terms of the solution. Where ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ you really need countries to cooperate and sacrifice and figure out a solution, with ‘Fed Up’ you can leave the theater and you can be empowered that very night by cooking dinner in your very own kitchen.’ – Laurie David

‘Two centuries ago, when our nation lost its sovereignty and was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria, Polish Romantics like the poet and nationalist Adam Mickiewicz declared that independence would come only with great sacrifice. Ever since, this myth of the martyr, or messianic victim, has emerged during times of national crisis.’ – Olga Tokarczuk

‘I love many of the rock and rollers next up on altar of actuarial sacrifice more than I ever loved David Bowie.’ – Tom Junod

‘The great character actors are now the actors whose work has the element of ritual sacrifice once claimed by the DeNiros of the world, as well as the element of danger – the actors who thrill us by going for broke.’ – Tom Junod

‘If you want to do well you have to sacrifice certain things.’ – Rob Cross

‘The hardest part about this business is being away from the kids. But what I hope to teach him – and what I hope to teach all kids that are kind of looking at this – is that to achieve anything, it takes a lot of sacrifice.’ – Anne McClain

‘I just got to a point where I was lying to myself constantly, so I had to face up to that. It was a lot of… I don’t want to use the words ‘self sacrifice,’ but that’s what it felt like. It was giving up who I thought I was and starting over from scratch and realizing the man that I am was good enough.’ – Ivan Moody

‘Every wish, every dream, every idea comes to existence only through blood, sweat and sacrifice.’ – Ivan Moody

‘My mom taught me to respect myself, and to question anyone who would ask me to sacrifice my integrity.’ – Shannon Bream

‘It took a lot of sacrifice from my dad. He managed to put cricket nets in our garden because he knew we had to practise every day. That would also keep us away from the streets.’ – Moeen Ali

‘We’re trying to give a young man life lessons – sacrifice, commitment, teamwork, self-confidence, self-esteem. That’s what this sport does for kids.’ – Bill Cowher

‘We obviously need to make money to survive, but we aren’t going to sacrifice our creative integrity to do anything that doesn’t feel like us.’ – Chad Gilbert

‘Most of the time when you’re going for a championship, unless you have guys who are willing to sacrifice, you’re not going to win it.’ – Shawn Kemp

‘The older I get, the more I am willing to sacrifice myself for the team to win.’ – Adam Lallana

‘I feel like I grew up differently, when you’re a child actor you grow up differently, but it’s not that different than growing up as, like, a child basketball player who goes to the NBA. There are certain kids who become professionals at a very young age. There’s a lot of sacrifice that goes into that.’ – Dante Basco

‘Sacrifice always seems to imply a bitterness attached to it. But I don’t feel bitter about the choices I’ve made. Yes, I sacrifice a job because I made certain family decisions, but I don’t regret it.’ – Dana Reeve

‘In any art, if you want to become successful, you have to be willing to sacrifice.’ – Johnny Lever

‘Football is teamwork, unity, defence, assists, sacrifice.’ – Philipp Lahm

‘Our brave servicemen and women sacrifice so much for us all – whether they’re spending months away from their families and friends or putting their lives on the line for our country.’ – Grant Shapps

‘Rather than embracing mainstream, majority-held positions, 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have made it exceedingly clear that they will sacrifice themselves on the altar of the radical left – endorsing positions held by a select few and fueling an unstoppable tailwind behind President Trump’s reelection.’ – Kayleigh McEnany

‘I think death is the aesthetic part of chess, seeing your opponent’s army fall. Producing a sacrifice in order to mate is the aesthetic part of it. It’s a beautiful, bloodless war.’ – Daniel Naroditsky

‘Most beginners who have learned the point system will only consider a sacrifice if it leads directly to checkmate or if the material can be won back by force. A Grandmaster, though, will frequently sacrifice for less tangible compensation, such as a lead in development or a superior pawn structure.’ – Daniel Naroditsky

‘There are people working in arts organizations who feel that in recent years there has been a sacrifice of quality and excellence in favor of ticking the right boxes and using the right buzz words because that’s what their masters tell them.’ – Munira Mirza

‘We all have to sacrifice a part of ourselves, including the players, for the good of the team.’ – Quique Setien

‘We have to be leaders and sacrifice our own egos and be humble and go in and figure out what their values are, and then speak to those values.’ – MJ Hegar

‘We should tell the true stories of that day to honor the memory and sacrifice of those who perished on 9/11 and in the long wars since.’ – Rick Wilson

‘Why would I accept to earn less money to play for Barcelona? Why are players the ones supposed to sacrifice themselves?’ – Thiago Silva

‘When you think about exploring deep space, it’s very dangerous for humans. To potentially sacrifice human life is a delicate proposition. On the flip side, if you want to send a robot to another planet for an extended period of time and at some point you know it’ll cease to function, it’s not considered a tragedy.’ – Grant Imahara

‘I find that a small sacrifice such as switching off my phone and blocking out work helps me stay balanced.’ – Laila Rouass

‘Many say that a man comes along with the moral courage of Nelson Mandela once in a lifetime. He was an extraordinary man who paid a great sacrifice for his beliefs, then led a nation from the prospect of civil war to reconciliation.’ – Craig Kielburger

‘We witness so many people lose themselves in this industry, and sacrifice who they really are for success and accolades.’ – KiKi Layne

‘If fighting ever got in the way of my marriage, you’d see me sacrifice my career.’ – Michael Chandler

‘Sometimes freedom demands a measure of sacrifice.’ – Erin O’Toole

‘I am super competitive, and I sacrifice a lot.’ – Anuel AA

‘Gold Star Families Remembrance Week gives us an opportunity to honor and recognize the sacrifices made by the families of members of the Armed Forces who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedoms and secure our nation.’ – Cindy Hyde-Smith

‘As a nation, we must honor the service and sacrifice made by Service members – past and present – to defend our nation and protect the American way of life.’ – Cindy Hyde-Smith

‘I am humbled and inspired by the ultimate sacrifice made by so many Mississippians on behalf of our nation, and the families they left behind.’ – Cindy Hyde-Smith

‘It takes some sacrifice to have a healthy relationship.’ – Valentin Chmerkovskiy

‘Central Virginians have a proud, centuries-long record of service and commitment to country, and each year, we gather to honor our neighbors who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of and service to our nation.’ – Abigail Spanberger

‘It’s always easier to sacrifice when you’re not the one who has to do it.’ – Erik Spoelstra

‘Sadly, there are inherent risks associated with the job of a law enforcement officer, and some make the ultimate sacrifice each year.’ – Chad Wolf

‘When you’re in love with it you’re willing to do whatever it takes, whether be it cold tubs, or massages, acupuncture, whatever it might be. I think when you love the game purely all those things you’re willing to do is sacrifice.’ – Jamal Crawford

‘Our service men and women sacrifice so much to protect our country, our citizens, and our freedoms. My father, brother, and nephew all served this nation in uniform, and I am committed to the unwavering support of those who defend this nation and our values.’ – Lucy McBath

‘America will never forget the service and sacrifice of our 9/11 heroes and their families.’ – Lucy McBath

‘The sacrifice musicians make, the results they achieve are fantastic. These are the big people as far as I am concerned. So if they are temperamental, I don’t hold it against them after all they had to go through to get to the top.’ – Bruno Sammartino

‘A lot of the better offenses sacrifice defense to be a good offense and I’m not interested in doing that.’ – Frank Vogel

‘When I was in Switzerland, I still had the fantasy I could have saved my parents and family if I’d stayed in Germany. All nonsense. If they had not made the sacrifice to send their only child to Switzerland, I wouldn’t be alive.’ – Ruth Westheimer

‘What I realized was that CrossFit wasn’t what defined me as a human being, it was the sacrifice that Christ made for me and all of us that defined who I was.’ – Rich Froning Jr.

‘Being at a World Cup is a sacrifice? Twenty days is a sacrifice? What about the people there working for the team, up at five every morning? That’s sacrifice. It’s not a sacrifice to play.’ – Fabio Capello

‘Luckily, my grandfather was willing to sacrifice everything for me.’ – Marcelo

‘If there’s one thing I learned about being with someone, it’s you have to be willing to give every drop of yourself. Both people need to sacrifice so much to make it work and most of my single friends they don’t want to do that.’ – Jason Nash

‘I told my wife, ‘Look, I’m going to ask y’all to sacrifice. I need to go to Portland. I need to lock in.’ At that time, I felt like my career… was on the line. So I told her, ‘This is what I need to do. I’m going to be without y’all for a while. Y’all can come out and visit. But this is what I need to do.’ She understood.’ – Rodney Hood

‘That’s the best feeling ever, when you sacrifice and you realize in the end that it was worth it.’ – Rodney Hood

‘The one thing I won’t do is sacrifice my Indian identity in my music, my clothing choices. It’s something I tried to hide growing up, and I would never do that again because it’s such a big part of me and I’m very proud of it.’ – Vidya Vox

‘Playing three games each week, you are away a lot. So, yeah, moving away from family and friends and being away all the time would have to be my biggest sacrifice.’ – Daniel James

‘Know sometimes you might have to sacrifice minutes or scoring opportunities just for the betterment of the team. And I think once everybody buys into that, I think that’s how you get tighter as a group and start winning more games.’ – Derrick Favors

‘As a mother I had to sacrifice a lot due to the pressing demands of my career.’ – Rituparna Sengupta

‘Why cannot a woman be shown working out of choice, the way men do? Can’t a woman work because she enjoys it and is capable of doing it? Why should they be shown leaving home for employment as a sacrifice for the family?’ – Shabana Azmi

‘The question we face today is: What are we going to do when the coal is gone? And make no mistake it’s going. No one has given us an answer that doesn’t require the sacrifice of our health and our environment.’ – Paula Jean Swearengin

‘I honestly cannot explain why my relationship with fans is so strong but, possibly, it’s due to the way I see football. I have always seen it as the result of great sacrifice, sacrifices you make every day for the victories, and hard work.’ – Pavel Nedved

‘I’ve worn a lot of different roles for this team – off the bench, starting, closer, point, off the ball, whatever it may be. So, that’s kind of how I view myself – the multi-purpose utility guy who helps keep the guys together, trying to make the sacrifice plays to help the team win.’ – Spencer Dinwiddie

‘The father-son relationship is the strongest there is. It’s been the basis of drama all the way back to the Bible. Notice, Abraham wasn’t told to sacrifice a daughter.’ – Lorne Greene

‘Army wives sacrifice a lot, we need to salute them because no matter what, they always put up a brave face.’ – Mahesh Manjrekar

‘The one thing that I won’t sacrifice is taking care of my kids. I want to make sure I fulfill that commitment.’ – Hilaria Baldwin

‘To me synchronised swimming is a metaphor for the job of being a girl. They have to fake their smiles, they’re made up like dolls and they can’t show the effort they’re making, yet under the surface of the water it’s a struggle and a sacrifice.’ – Celine Sciamma

‘It was not a sacrifice leaving the house when I was young and travelling around Europe to find a club. It was the only way to get to where I am today, and I am proud of that.’ – Demba Ba

‘I’ve always thought my dad was fantastic and now I’m a dad myself I can see what an incredible sacrifice he made as a man in the 60s – he was there every day for me, cooked my meals and shaped me.’ – Mick Hucknall

‘In the football world, we throw around words like ‘sacrifice,’ ‘hard work’ and ‘hero.” – Greg Olsen

‘At the end of the day I’m a football player. I’m paid to be prepared and people rely on me to get a job done, and I will never jeopardize that or sacrifice any efforts toward that goal.’ – Greg Olsen

‘Teammates sacrifice for each other.’ – Robin Lopez

‘If you want to win, when you want to get to the upper echelons of this league, everybody on the roster is going to sacrifice.’ – Robin Lopez

‘When I came into this league, it was a Phoenix Suns team consistently going to the playoffs, and they had aspirations to go deep into the playoffs. People were always harping on sacrifice, what you have to give up for the success of the team.’ – Robin Lopez

‘This is a difficult sport and it’s a sport where you have to be prepared for so many eventualities and possibilities. It takes so much time and so much work. And as a guy with a family, there is a lot of sacrifice that must be made.’ – Travis Browne

‘I think when you look at the NFL, I think people try to highlight the negative things. So, I think anything that brings a positive light to our game and to the men that go out here and sacrifice and put their bodies on the line and still use their free time to give back and help other people out, I think that’s what it’s about.’ – Devin McCourty

‘You have to commend the players who’ve stepped up and used their voice, who’ve been courageous, and when it came to Colin Kaepernick, had to sacrifice tremendously to get their point across.’ – Harrison Barnes

‘Pearl Harbor remains a symbol of American resilience and resolve, and we pray for all those that have served and continue to serve in our military. May we never forget their bravery and sacrifice.’ – Jim Justice

‘We owe everything to our veterans because their sacrifice and service have made the United States the greatest country on earth.’ – Jim Justice

‘I am very strict about what I eat. I do not consume anything that my body does not require. It takes a lot of sacrifice and discipline. It wasn’t easy before but now its second nature for me.’ – Sunil Chhetri

‘For me, it was my dream as a kid to play two sports at the highest level I possibly could. Doing that at Notre Dame just meant I had to sacrifice in ways a normal college student wouldn’t have had to sacrifice.’ – Pat Connaughton

‘Those heroes and soldiers who sacrifice themselves for the nation always have their coffins covered with the national flag. Us players are like those soldiers – we wear the national flag when we play.’ – Ali Daei

‘Fast casual is a wonderful way to eat. The casualisation of fine dining has allowed everyone to feel comfortable, but at the same time you do sacrifice a sense of occasion.’ – Melissa Leong

‘I don’t even have an iron. Yes, it means I can’t own crisp, white shirts – but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. My clothes simply emerge pristine from the dryer. Jeans don’t crease and, for work, stretchy Lycra holds its shape.’ – Susanna Reid

‘No one wants to trivialise the gigantic challenge of battling terrorism or undermine the sacrifice of our soldiers and policemen.’ – Barkha Dutt

‘Run into other people for 20 years, you’re gonna have pain. But I’d do it all again… It’s like I say to my kids: ‘Good things that happen are often a byproduct of a sacrifice you’ve made.” – Howie Long

‘I think of how serious I treat my job and how much I want to be part of a championship environment and team – I sacrifice everything for it.’ – Mike Conley Jr.

‘Our men and women in uniform sacrifice every day to keep us safe, often working in some pretty unsafe places around the world.’ – Tommy Tuberville

‘Many gave their lives – the ultimate sacrifice – to defend the United States.’ – Tommy Tuberville

‘Our Gold Star families have given a great sacrifice to our country.’ – Tommy Tuberville

‘I am proud to stand with the brave men and women who sacrifice so much to keep our country safe and secure and provide them with the resources they need to transition back into civilian life.’ – John Bel Edwards

‘I was in the spot where you work your butt off to get to: the fourth round of the U.S. Open against Roger Federer on Labor Day. That’s why you work so hard in this game and sacrifice so much – to get to that position.’ – Mardy Fish

‘Democracy demands sacrifice. Democracy demands that the rules of the game be respected just as the constitution requires.’ – Jovenel Moise

‘I would not sacrifice myself for a system like the Soviet system to be established in Greece.’ – Mikis Theodorakis

‘My entire childhood was a sacrifice: I was in and out of institutes until I was 17. Art has given me a chance to catch up on the years that I lost.’ – Goldie

‘I am not going to sacrifice that for something that doesn’t mean as much to me as kids mean to me. The kids mean the world to me. If I have to make a decision to cancel some things, I will do it as a man.’ – George Hill

‘You have to sacrifice something for the best, for the team.’ – Ricky Rubio

‘What makes a good team is putting the pieces together and make it work. As a veteran, it’s part of my job to make that work. Seeing where and how the young talent has to sacrifice something for the team.’ – Ricky Rubio

‘I’m just so honored I got the chance to represent our country. I was always willing to put in the work, the sacrifice, to do so.’ – Eddy Alvarez

‘I have to sacrifice time with my family, sacrifice time with my friends, sacrifice time with studying… my work at the Philippines Air Force.’ – Hidilyn Diaz

‘So when we were building that superhero workout, that Marvel body, it was really important for us not to sacrifice range of motion and explosiveness, because I’ve still got to be able to throw a punch at the end of the day.’ – Simu Liu

‘I had a different impression of motherhood. I was told it’ll be tough but I realised that eventually it is what you make of it. When you see the love your child gives, giving up a few things doesn’t feel like any sacrifice.’ – Lisa Haydon

‘It takes a lot of sacrifice – you can’t do things other people are doing in their life, like I had to wait six years to have a baby… But when you’re on stage, there’s no greater high than that.’ – Sara Evans

‘Our officers work tirelessly on the front lines every day and truly embody the spirit of selflessness and public service found only in the bravest amongst us. We are forever grateful for their continued courage and sacrifice.’ – Chris Sununu

‘I love our military. I’m grateful for their service and sacrifice.’ – Lauren Boebert

‘Let’s learn from history and take a look at other infamous socialist central-planning experiments like China’s Great Leap Forward or the Soviet Union’s Five-Year Plan. Like those two disasters, the Green New Deal would cripple our country and sacrifice Americans on the altar of environmental extremism.’ – Lauren Boebert

‘We must never forget or overlook the incredible sacrifice of military families, especially military spouses. These families uproot their lives in service to our nation and help preserve the freedoms we know and love.’ – Madison Cawthorn

‘Those who sacrifice for the good of this nation are not simply a resource to be utilized and cast aside.’ – Madison Cawthorn

‘Im very much a peoples person. Ill always sacrifice myself for other people. And its done alright for me.’ – Emile Heskey

‘Racial inequity in how the immense benefits of the original G.I. Bill were disbursed are well-documented, and we’ve all seen how these inequities have trickled down over time, leaving Black World War II veterans and their families without the benefits they earned through service and sacrifice.’ – Raphael Warnock

‘Our veterans have sacrificed so much for our country, and we must always ensure at home we are committed to honoring that sacrifice and service by ensuring we’re providing them the utmost care and support.’ – Raphael Warnock

‘You have to make sacrifices if you want to do what you want to do in this world. If you really want something you make the sacrifice. If you don’t, you don’t.’ – Brian Flores

‘You’ve got a guy sitting in a big house, making $5 million a year, saying he does not want to sacrifice his time. That is not a kindred spirit to me.’ – Jim Harbaugh

‘Anything, any job you want to do in the world, you have to put in the work, especially when it comes to being a professional athlete – a lot of education, a lot of sacrifice, and a lot of work, but it’s all worth it at the end when you make it.’ – Nikola Vucevic

‘False prophets like Joe Biden have asked us to sacrifice our lives so that they might deliver us from death.’ – Will Cain

‘Eileen Gu, I think, has had to sacrifice her American passport. So welcome to China. I hope stardom and the riches that you have earned through betraying America are all worth it, because you have definitely sold out.’ – Will Cain

‘Ney is very important for us, a leader of the team. He works as hard as he can and is one of those who will sacrifice himself for the team and everyone will sacrifice themselves for him.’ – Marquinhos

‘People may think that’s not true, but everything I’ve done in this business, every sacrifice I made, every time I had guy come to me that I respect and go, ‘Don’t do that, you’re Arn Anderson. You don’t have to do that, just tell them no!’ I went ahead and did whatever was requested to take care of my family.’ – Arn Anderson

‘I’m not willing to sacrifice what I’ve learned and what I’m about just to get played on radio.’ – Lorrie Morgan

‘Vermonters are inspired by the bravery, courage, and sacrifice of those who seek nothing more than the freedom to determine their own futures.’ – Phil Scott

‘There’s no doubt we’ve lost too many Vermonters – family, friends, neighbors and role models – in the War on Terror. But let me assure you, they did not die in vain. Their service and sacrifice kept America safe.’ – Phil Scott

‘We can never do enough to thank the men and women in our military and their families, and for those who pay the ultimate sacrifice, we’ll never be able to repay them.’ – Phil Scott

‘Americans who serve in the armed forces risk everything to defend our country. When they sacrifice their health or their very lives in the name of freedom, we owe them a massive debt we can never fully repay.’ – Nancy Mace

‘We are able to enjoy our everyday freedoms because of the dedicated service and sacrifice of those who have answered the call to serve.’ – Young Kim

‘Our law enforcement officers deserve our support and our thanks for the sacrifice and bravery they bring to our communities every day.’ – Michelle Steel

‘No matter what you do for a living, where you live, or what your responsibilities are, nobody can have it all without a little bit of sacrifice, focus, and energy.’ – Randi Zuckerberg

‘To sacrifice personal freedom to gain creative freedom is a fair enough price.’ – David Essex

‘Obviously, if you’re looking for stories of suffering and sacrifice that end with the ultimate fulfillment of God’s promises, start with the Bible.’ – Mary Katharine Ham

‘I avoid cheap holidays. You get what you pay for and this is especially true when it comes to holidays. I’d sacrifice other things to ensure I had a good time on holiday.’ – David Coulthard

‘I want to succeed so bad, but I understand how to sacrifice for the team. My dad always says, ‘If you’re not getting better, you’re getting caught. There’s always some young guy behind you trying to pass you by.’ I’m not going to get caught.’ – Kelly Oubre, Jr.

‘I like to sacrifice myself.’ – Luca Toni

‘When I think of Ida B. Wells, I think of sacrifice.’ – Karine Jean-Pierre

‘I sacrifice every single important thing to win a fight.’ – Marlon Vera

‘When you want to win, you’ve got to sacrifice.’ – Josh Hart

‘On a night where it’s needed I feel like I can step up and do that but if you want to win, guys got to sacrifice.’ – Josh Hart

‘I would never sacrifice things in my life for somebody who wouldn’t do the same for me.’ – Taylor Hill

‘I’ve done some pretty cool individual things in my career, but my greatest memories come from times of sacrifice.’ – David Lee

‘When you’re young, you want a job because you want money – but, like, no. If you want this job, you have to sacrifice and commit to it and show up and be on time.’ – Breanna Stewart

‘My parents wanted to provide for us so much, so that I could study at school and train and improve as a footballer. I’m eternally grateful for that hard work and sacrifice.’ – Miguel Almiron

‘The spirit of America is service in pursuit of justice and sacrifice for causes bigger than ourselves.’ – Brian Mast

‘It was worth it to serve alongside my brothers and sisters in arms. And it was worth it to be part of our nation’s proud tradition of military service. It was worth it to get to know hundreds, if not thousands, of men and women who set an incredible example of service and sacrifice.’ – Brian Mast

‘It’s not easy with tennis, because if you want to see your daughter a lot, then your wife has to sacrifice a lot. She has to travel with the baby, and many times it’s her taking the plane and not me.’ – Daniil Medvedev

‘There are four things you need for greatness: the ability to sacrifice, the ability to endure pain whether it’s physical or mental, the ability to understand that you’re going to fail because that makes you a better person. And finally, loving what you’re doing.’ – Jerome Bettis

‘I’ve conquered everything with sacrifice.’ – Joao Cancelo