Best sacrifice & play Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.”

People Way Needs Kind Self Play Helping Running Christian Lying Jesus Kindness Failing Sacrifice Danger Development Goodness Be Kind Self Development

Book:Commonplace Book

Source: Commonplace Book

“I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Self Play Seems Doubt Sacrifice Mystery Fairs Nun Clergy

Book:Green Dolphin Street

Source: Green Dolphin Street

“Travelling is very difficult, you have to go to places with different climates and time zones. Travelling like that every single day through the year is definitely not healthy, but that's something I have to sacrifice if I want to play music.”

Ifs Want Years Different Play Difficult Sacrifice Healthy Climate Zone Through The Years Time Zones

Author:Hiromi

“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.”

Life Play Dream Romance Life Is Song Games Enjoy Realizing Challenges Sacrifice Inspirational Life Offers Love Life Life Is A Dream Life Is A Game Play Life

Author:Sai Baba

“I know that sacrifices have to be made to play with good teams.”

Knows Made Play Sacrifice Team Good Team

Author:Chris Bosh

“A lot of kids just want to go play basketball, but they don't know to play and they don't have the skills to play. I think just the skill development right off and then play all you can, but don't sacrifice your skill development by just playing and not working on the specifics of the game.”

Thinking Knows Want Play Kids Games Sacrifice Development Skills Basketball Specifics Skills Development

Author:Pat Summitt

“[Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story of a very peculiar man, another genius who's troubled and lived an interesting life. I had great fun making that.”

Men Play Stories Fun Interesting Sacrifice Genius Chess Peculiar Championship Pawns Fischer Interesting Life

Author:Michael Stuhlbarg

“When I take on a character, it's a sacrifice. There's something that you give up every time. I want to become these characters, and I want to be mysterious, but if you know too much about me, it's not going to be too much fun watching me play a character, because it's just going to be me with a mask on, instead of you believing what the mask is.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Believe Play Character Fun Too Much Sacrifice Giving Up Mysterious Mask Too Much Fun

Author:Brie Larson

“I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.”

People Made Play Dream Wanted Sacrifice Achieve Changed Football My Friends My Family Leaving New Life Argentina

Author:Lionel Messi

“Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.”

Thinking Play Games Mistake Sacrifice Losing Making Mistakes Cuz

Author:Carrie Underwood

“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world." Winston Churchill Christmas Eve Message, 1941 as printed in "In the Dark Streets Shineth.”

“The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.”

Giving Stills Matter Play Song Christ Differences Sacrifice Safe Giving Up Remains Admire Phrases Prize Where You Are Followers Renounce Admirer

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.”

Said Play Winning Interest Sacrifice Position Superfluous

Book:The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

Source: The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

“mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. Then they both let go. laughing. "Naw," Plight said, we just play board games." ..."she fell for it!" gasped Lenka. "She fell for the human sacrifice bit!”

Way Humans Said Play Found Games Bits Laughing Sacrifice Arms Letting Go Boards Cried Faded Plight Board Games

Author:Derek Landy

“On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win. What the numbers are in salaries or statistics don't matter; how they play together does.”

Ifs Doe Matter Play Helping Shows Able Together Winning Ability Numbers Player Sacrifice Team Fit Basketball Athlete Motivational Sports Statistics Salary Superstar Good Team

Author:Red Holzman

“Ask me to play. I'll play. Ask me to shoot. I'll shoot. Ask me to pass. I'll pass. Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate. Anything. But it's not what you ask of me. It's what I ask of myself.”

Play Asks Sacrifice Basketball Stealing Block Ask Me

Author:LeBron James

“Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.”

“Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.”

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

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