Top 1200 Personal Sacrifice Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, among the world's richest men, believes his personal fortune can erase the liberty of every American who would exercise the right to keep and bear arms. He plans liquidation of our rights a step-at-a-time - spending millions of dollars of his bottomless personal fortune at a time.

When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.

I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot predict: the changing light, weather, personal mood, and often just plain luck. Of course, you must have a starting point, so I establish some fixed points then improvise as I go. In many cases the locations seem to choose me.

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

I can only speak from my personal journey and my personal struggles which are completely different from other individuals but if I can slightly help someone else understand themselves, then that's perfect. Because I only make music, there's so much emotion in the music itself that I hope people can tap into and feel the same way I feel when I listen to it.

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice.

No one wants to trivialise the gigantic challenge of battling terrorism or undermine the sacrifice of our soldiers and policemen.

The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

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.

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.

To be an effective leader, you must be trustworthy. If people don’t trust you, they won’t follow you. And if they won’t follow you, your organization won’t meet its goals. Sandy Allgeier explains that personal credibility comes down to a simple truth: It’s not about the type of person you are; it’s about the types of things you do. If you want to be a great leader, read The Personal Credibility Factor.

I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.

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.

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

I can't give up and sacrifice my career, my future for a man, especially being engaged for so many years.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

I don't care what the press is about a person that I'm working with. I care about how they come to work every day. I don't care who broke up with who or who is sleeping with who or who went out where. I don't care what you do with your personal life. It's when people take their personal lives into a space where it affects their performance at work, that's when I would stop taking someone seriously.

There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most personal thing you can do, is die, and you feel almost like you're invading someone's most personal moment by being there.

No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

I stand here today - in the shadow of my parents' and grandparents' accomplishments - because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future.

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

One of the principles of the Trump administration is that we will never sacrifice our economy on the altar of foreign policy.

He had a sort of positive effect - you saw Salah and wanted to work harder. Talent and sacrifice.

My family has grown to love all of the Trumps because they are wonderful people willing to sacrifice much for their country.

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

The most important thing is always to feel comfortable - I would never sacrifice function for style.

Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!

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.

The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another: teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

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

Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.

The one thing that I won't sacrifice is taking care of my kids. I want to make sure I fulfill that commitment.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

To me you have to commit yourself to the sacrifice, because it's so important. Even if people don't agree, they appreciate commitment.

The fact that he was willing to sacrifice his own face in order to keep mine from getting bashed in

Yeah, I was going to have no features on 'Bulletproof.' But I ended up putting Gucci Mane on it. That's just my partner. He's just one of my personal friends. It ain't no different for him from my homeboys in Memphis. I just have a real personal relationship. I met Gucci Mane through my partner Drumma Boy, the producer.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life.

To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

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.

Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.

Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful.

I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.

Whatever your goal is: dedicate yourself to it and it's going to be a lot of sacrifice, but if you love what you want to do, it shouldn't be a problem.