Top 1200 Willingness To Sacrifice Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body is not enfleshed in a healthy way.

The cable industry has risen to new heights in their apparent willingness and ability to gouge the American consumer. Cable rates [have] increased an unbelievable five-and-a-half times faster than inflation.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

The one factor that you can't find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And in Denmark every single one of them is engaged and willing to do whatever it takes to get Denmark to be a leader in electric vehicles.

The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.

I believe that as we face unparalleled prosperity in some quarters and deep impoverishment in others, it is the willingness of the next generation to bridge the gap between the two that will return us to our sense of purpose and focus.

We have fluctuations all the time, business cycles, and they come about in various ways, but normally what sets them off is some reduction in the willingness of our population, our businesses, and foreigners to buy.

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.

The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.

Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.

My parents' sacrifice and hard work obligated me to be successful, it wasn't an option to fail.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?

The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the work even when that feeling of inspiration isn't there at all.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.

What is ultimately compelling for our children in helping them conjure images of a future for themselves is our willingness to walk with them as they do it.

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Kill Rock Stars has a willingness to really work with the artist and to be flexible with what they're doing... part of being an independent artists means having your hands in the business all the time, so they bring in a lot of ideas about it.

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

There comes a point at which a law can be so unjust it is necessary openly, lovingly and with a willingness to accept the consequences to refuse to comply with a greatly unjust law.

That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.

I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus... If I have to sacrifice everything... I will.

The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of. People like that share a willingness to be scared and to take chances.

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

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

In ancient times they sacrificed the virgins. Men were not about to sacrifice the sluts!

Our military personnel sacrifice for us, and we need to stand up for them.

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

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

A militant's profile lies not in his age, race, culture, or education; anyone can join or be adopted by the al Qaeda network, the only prerequisite being a willingness to accept the group's radical, cultlike ideology.

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

My hope and my prayer for people would be to find and gather themselves such that their self-understanding, their willingness to act in the face of fear, [imbibes and imbues them] with enough faith [that] is bigger than their fear.

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.

Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer . . . if he can only . . . tell the naked truth about himself and other people. That, a little technique with words and the willingness to bare heart, soul and body are really all it takes.

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger.

Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.