Best sacrifice & sometimes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.”

Thinking Needs Believe Sometimes Moments Motivational Running Sacrifice Conditions Missing Present Moment Here And Now True Life

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Sometimes in life you have to make a decision and make sacrifices.”

Sometimes Decision Sacrifice Sometimes In Life

Author:Debi Mazar

“We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.”

People World Should Looks Country Sometimes Democracy Rights Sacrifice West China Tendencies Efficient Criticise Short Sighted Authoritarian Government

Author:Ai Weiwei

“For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.”

Ifs Humans May Doe Sometimes Would Be Nations Sacrifice Victim Killing Rate Criminals Civilized Execution

Author:James G. Frazer

“Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.”

Sometimes Games Winning Pieces Sacrifice Kings Chess Queens Knights Chess Pieces

Author:John Rhys-Davies

“I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.”

Thinking Men Sometimes Values Pieces Sacrifice Talent Essentials Objectives Preserves Great Men Epic Grandeur

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.”

Men Self Sometimes Form Class Sacrifice Objects Duty Eternal Villain Heroism Nevertheless Lowest Scorn Impressive Grandeur Self Sacrifice Ascent

Book:De Quincey's works

Source: De Quincey's works

“Writing is an art but also a craft, which means it's a job. I don't teach. This is how the groceries get on the table. You sometimes make creative sacrifices to get the job done. All that said, I'm looking forward to getting out of the two-book-a-year schedule I'm on and to getting some self-indulgence going.”

Writing Years Mean Art Said Two Book Self Sometimes Done Jobs Teach Creative Sacrifice Tables Crafts Schedules Looking Forward Indulgence Groceries Self Indulgence Get The Job Done

Author:Charlie Huston

“Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.”

Ifs Persons Sometimes Remember Suffering Forget Risk Sacrifice Offers Aim Cures Justified Intervention Barbaric Breathtaking

Book:Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen, what they are looking for. What are they trying to do? Sometimes what they do is heroic or comes with a price or sacrifice or maybe the way they do things isn't so great and that's when they become anti-heroes. But the journey of an anti-hero combined with a good story done well is always worthwhile.”

Way Trying Wells Sometimes Done Stories Happens Interesting Sacrifice Journey Hero Heroic Worthwhile Quests Good Story Anti Hero

Author:Keanu Reeves

“I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover, this behavior eventually leads to resentment. There's always a hidden agenda of What's in it for me? It's often suppressed, and this is why sacrifice is ultimately unwise and incomplete. Does this mean that there's no such thing as altruism, philanthropy, or generosity? No, it just means that anytime these exist, so do egocentricity, misanthropy, and greed. There's always a balancing force, even if it's sometimes hidden or unconscious.”

“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.”

“Sometimes you have to sacrifice because you see what the end goal is. When you have a dream and you want to get it done, you can't wait on other people.”

People Want Ends Sometimes Done Dream Waiting Goal Sacrifice Get It Done

Author:Reagan Gomez-Preston

“Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more than just the story of one soldier's service and sacrifice. Their service ripples across their families, friends and their communities. Memorial Day reminds us it is the noble sacrifice of many that makes us who we are.”

War Sometimes Stories Individual Community Struggle Sacrifice Soldier Noble Who We Are Memorial Memorial Day Ripple Family Friends Service And Sacrifice

Author:James Carafano

“You have got to goad yourself toward a becoming that is in accordance with what you are innate. You have got to sometimes become the medicine you want to take. You have got to, you have absolutely got to put your face into the gash and sniff, and lick. You have got to learn to get sick. You have got to reestablish the integrity of your emotions so that their violence can become a health and so that you can keep on becoming. There is no sacrifice. You have got to want to live. You have got to force yourself to want to.”

Want Sometimes Faces Force Emotion Violence Sacrifice Becoming Integrity Sick Medicine Your Face Innate

Author:Ariana Reines

“All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.”

Humans Ideas Different Sometimes Problem Action Effort Plans Failing Magic Sacrifice Solutions Complexes Solve Bullets Components Human Problems

Author:Alan Carr

“Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.”

Ifs Want Feels Has Beens Sometimes Bits Goal Taken Sacrifice Childhood Achieve Tiny Achieving Your Goals

Author:Freddy Adu

“Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.”

People Sometimes Bigs Sacrifice Stage Morality Comfort Standing International

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list.”

Thinking Firsts Sometimes Mother Sacrifice Taught Higher Investing Lists Priorities Good Mother Being A Good Mother

Author:Michelle Obama

“Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting.”

Writing Firsts Sometimes Song Sacrifice Productions Songwriting Verses Carried Away

Author:Nina Nesbitt

“It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.”

Sometimes Common Sacrifice Theory Chess Combination Unjust Magnitude Untrue

Book:The Art of Chess Combination

Source: The Art of Chess Combination

“I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.”

Want Sometimes Sacrifice Happenings Good Things Things Happen Workaholic

Author:Nelly

“My guys are morally weak, and they reach toward a tenuous knowledge of self-sacrifice, and sometimes it's too late. I find that moving. It's not a life I'd want to live. But, then, I'm not completely my books.”

Want Book Self Sometimes Moving Guy Sacrifice Late Weak Too Late Self Knowledge Self Sacrifice

Author:James Ellroy

“It costs to be a friend or to have a friend. There is nothing else in life except motherhood that costs so much. It not only costs time, affection, patience, love, but sometimes a man must even lay down his life for his friends. There is no true friendship without self-abnegation, self-sacrifice.”

Men Self Sometimes Sacrifice Cost Lays Affection Motherhood True Friend True Friendship Self Sacrifice Abnegation Patience Love

Book:What is Worth While?

Source: What is Worth While?

“If you can just focus on creating your art whether that's music or writing a book or painting trust me it is really hard to balance that with a personal life. You have to be willing to sacrifice sometimes things in your personal life if your ultimate goal is to pursue things as an artist.”

Writing Art Book Sometimes Artist Goal Focus Sacrifice Painting Balance Ultimate Personal Life Trust Me Writing A Book

Author:Butch Vig

“As far as sometimes being involved with different demonstrations, I did an anti-war protest in San Fran in January, and I'm standing there, amongst all these people, and it's this great thing to see people being active and actually standing up for what they believe in and still letting the government know that there are people who will still sacrifice a portion of their day to stand up for what they care about, but I'm just thinking to myself, "God, man, these protests have been going on throughout I-don't-even-know-how-many years, and here we are again."”

People Thinking Men Believe Different Sometimes Care Sacrifice Great Things Protest January

Author:Mr. Lif

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

Sometimes Sacrifice Performances Heels High Heels

Author:Gwen Stefani

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”

Sometimes Sacrifice Positive Losing Passing Passings Without Sacrifice Passing It Willingness To Sacrifice Ultimate Sacrifice

Author:Mitch Albom

“The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.”

People May Sometimes Moments Might Understanding Wonder Greater Sacrifice Losing Gains Roots Terror Possession Chains Ties Fancy Why Not Globes

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”

Humans Kind Art Sometimes Artist Difficult Human Beings Sacrifice Office Ordinary Art Is Instruments Innate Worth Living Life Worth Living

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.”

Thinking Feels Humans Looks Sometimes Novel Sacrifice Cold Married Standing Dinner Ghost Staring Demon Dickens Christmas Dinner

Book:Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files

Source: Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files

“Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained.”

People Want Feels Sometimes Certain Courses Risk Sacrifice Odd Gestures Seeming

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.”

People Said Sometimes Sacrifice Tvs Shadow Altars Lucy

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.”

Giving Persons Self Sometimes Joy Community Sun Our Lives Sacrifice Personality Clothes Generous Summit Tokens Self Giving

Book:In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)

Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)

“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”

People Love Giving Sometimes Sacrifice

Book:Delirium (Delirium Trilogy 1)

Source: Delirium (Delirium Trilogy 1)

“...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.”

“I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.”

“Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.”

“Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.”

Mind Heart Sometimes Done Feelings Remember Joy Felt Saws Sacrifice My Heart Desert Heart And Mind No Hope Without Hope Old Feelings

Book:Jayber Crow: A Novel

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods who demanded that their sacrifices be fearless and without blemish, and I wonder whether, whoever or whatever took Peter and Jamie away, it decided I wasn't good enough.”

Thinking Sometimes Enough Lines Wonder Sacrifice Decided Ancient Fearless Good Enough Peter Rejected Jamie Sly Ancient Gods

Author:Tana French

“Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.”

Kind Sometimes Winning Wise Sacrifice Kinds Of Love Sometimes Love

Author:Lauren Kate

“Most people think the biggest sacrifice, the greates act of love you can give is to die for someone. And probably it is. But Sometimes it is the opposite. The biggest thing you can do for someone is to live.”

People Thinking Giving Sometimes Dies Can Do Sacrifice Love You Opposites Acts Of Love

Author:Sarah Wylie

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

People Sometimes Feelings Beauty Courage Virtue Risk Sacrifice Honesty Discipline Capacity Destroyed Vulnerable Telling The Truth Wounded Life And Love

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.”

Mean Real Sometimes Answers Sacrifice Letting Go Real Love Love Means Sometimes Love

Book:Gates of Paradise: Number 7 in series

Source: Gates of Paradise: Number 7 in series

“There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams... He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.”

Thinking Kind Doe Made Different Self Sometimes Dream Night Father Heaven Sacrifice Late Harder Bravery Brave Admire Different Kinds Darling Drawers Pistols Thinking Of Others

Author:James M. Barrie

“But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.”

Sometimes Order Winning Sacrifice

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.”

“I just want to be happy. And I find that people that have the least in life are sometimes the happiest. And I don't have the least in life. I have enough in life. And I won't sacrifice my health for that.”

People Want Inspirational Sometimes Enough Motivational Sacrifice Healthy Suicide Well Being Suicidal Thoughts Want To Be Happy I Just Want To Be Happy Just Want To Be Happy

Author:John Moffitt

“The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get something done, as we've done here in the strike and the boycott, then they continue to suffer - and maybe a little bit more - but the suffering becomes less important because they see a chance of progress; sometimes progress itself. They've been suffering all their live.s It's a question of suffering with some kind of hope now. That's better than suffering with no hope at all.”

Knows Way Kind Littles Important Sometimes Done Problem Suffering Bits Chance Poor Progress Sacrifice Little Bit Capacity Strikes Vehicle Problem Solving No Hope Boycott

Author:Cesar Chavez

Sacrifice Quotes

Related topics

Sacrifice Quotes