“Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.” PersonsCountryTogetherChoicesSimpleSacrificeAccomplishmentReachingDividesReach OutOur ChoicesVolunteerismSacrifice For Others Author:George H. W. Bush
“A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.” MenSelfGivenCausesNaturalSimpleSacrificePossibilityBenefitsReflectionEverydayOneselfEngagedEveryday LifeSelf SacrificeDonne Author:African Spir
“Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it?” IfsWorldSimpleSacrificeSixSevenContinentsPatriot Author:Sam Worthington
“How you educate the people around you, what steps you take toward making it better, what sacrifices you make. The equation of life is simple: There's no gain without pain. For whatever reason, that's the way this world was designed in every facet. It's the same thing, there has to be a sacrifice.” PeopleWorldWayReasonPainLife IsSimpleStepsSacrificeThis WorldGainsEducateEquationsFacetsWithout PainLife Is Simple Author:Andrew Hawkins
“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.” LiteratureEasyDifficultSimpleSacrificeSkillsSimplicityComplicatedExecution Author:John Ruskin
“Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.” MenMadeSaidFeelingsNightEasySimpleEffortSacrificeDangerNeededPrimitive Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.” IfsNeedsSelfSimplePoorLaughingSacrificePureQuietSeasonsBreadGentleSelf Sacrifice Book:The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives?” ThinkingDifferentTogetherFacesLawNationsLinesSimpleAnimalSacrificeMinesTreatsThirdsHonestlyCompareGenerousInsultBowsBoastGet TogetherAnnualsWorshippers Author:Orson Scott Card