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“A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”

Ifs World Levels Class Sacrifice Ethics Performances Dancing Intense Get Up Work Ethic Finite Rehearsal

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past is to be little and foolish and bad; it is to misapply noble means, to sacrifice glorious opportunities for the performance of sublime deeds, to become cumberers of the ground.”

Mean Littles Past Opportunity Race Greater Progress Sacrifice Duty Performances Deeds Noble Foolish Glorious Wiser Sublime Discharge

Book:Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

“Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human sacrifices. And they ought to be fitted up like the ancient temples in Egypt, in a manner to show the real atrocity of the superstition that is carried on within their walls.”

Humans May Real Shows Sacrifice Wall Ought Performances Ancient Glasses Temples Superstitions Devoted Apartment Egypt Atrocities Circulation Intemperance

Author:Thomas Lovell Beddoes

“Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.”

Self Actors Easy Sacrifice Waste Performances Humble Excess Gestures Magnanimous

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“The romance of circumvention is one of the most destructive forces at work in our society. The American Idol freeway to greatness, Instagramming one's way into popular consciousness with selfies of our ass folds beneath short shorts, human growth hormone and performance-enhancing drugs for athletes, Adderall for the idle mind, reality television that sacrifices our dignity for fifteen lousy minutes.”

“If someone's performance is down we do not say, 'Hey pick up your things here.' We do not yell and scream at them, we say, 'Are you okay?' The idea of putting our financials goal aside for one minute to express empathy for the human being for that work and saying, 'Are you okay?' That is part of the sacrifice.”

Ifs Humans Ideas Goal Human Beings Sacrifice Minutes Empathy Picks Okay Performances Hey Scream One Minute

Author:Simon Sinek

“Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.”

Sometimes Sacrifice Performances Heels High Heels

Author:Gwen Stefani