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“It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. It is false that the evils of the situation arise from absence of ideals; they spring from wrong ideals.”

Thinking Facts Desire Fall Evil Force Views Quality Situation Sacrifice Spring Ideals Pressure Endure Absence Arise Realistic Disagreeable

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

“Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.”

Men Has Beens Sports Situation Sacrifice Demand Achievement Tension Unnecessary Emergencies Affluent

Book:The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism

Source: The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism

“When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer.”

Prayer Situation Sacrifice Duty Habit Offers Connected Employment Situations In Life Sacrifice To God

Author:Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

“We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even”

People Should Real Situation Accepting Sacrifice Achieve Willing Limits Glory Satisfied Ashamed Mentality Achieving Happiness Happiness Within

Book:Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87

Source: Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87

“In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.”

“Now is the time to become a disciple of Jesus Christ, which means accepting His invitation to 'come, follow me' (Luke 18:22). This is the decision we made in our premortal lives. Now we must make it again here in mortality, every day, in every situation by taking the Savior's name upon us, remembering His atoning sacrifice, and keeping His commandments. This we covenanted to do when we were baptized, and we have the opportunity to renew those covenants each week as we partake of the sacrament.”

“I would like especially to mention you, the women, wives and mothers of Paraguay, who at great cost and sacrifice were able to lift up a country defeated, devastated and laid low by an abominable war. God bless your perseverance, God bless and encourage your faith, God bless the women of Paraguay, the most glorious women of America.”

“What are you doing this weekend to improve your financial situation? Sacrifice made today goes a long way for a better tomorrow.”

Way Long Made Today Situation Sacrifice Tomorrow Financial Weekend Long Way Better Tomorrow

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“If you're tweeting - and this is what I tell the young athletes who come to me about these situations, because I've been through them and I've seen both sides of it - if you're tweeting just because everyone else is tweeting and you're not uncomfortable, if it doesn't feel like a sacrifice - like when I wore that T-shirt it was a sacrifice.”

Ifs Feels Young Sides Situation Sacrifice Athlete Uncomfortable Shirts Both Sides T Shirt Young Athletes

Author:Andrew Hawkins

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

Way Two Suffering Courses Force Justice Healing Situation Creative Sacrifice Decided Latter Bitterness Two Ways

Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.”

Self Social Situation Generations Sacrifice Teaching Example Demand Mass Assuming Patriotism Sympathetic This Generation Present Situation

Book:The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois

Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois

“If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient - at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.”

Ifs Giving Waiting Situation Enemy Sacrifice Military Appearance Hardship Transient

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.”

Giving Government Three Goal Situation Support Sacrifice Security Travel Bravery Unity Iraq Primaries Troops Funny Travel American Troops National Unity

Author:John Boehner