Best sacrifice & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.”

Thinking Knows Years Ideas Self Home Force Sacrifice Air Dad Direct My Dad Crew Self Sacrifice Air Force Indirect

Author:Jeremy Northam

“We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.”

Thinking Should Made Turns Jesus Support Sacrifice Abandoned Being Cool

Author:Stacie Orrico

“I was trying to be appreciative for the education I had, for the sacrifices my parents made. I was very interested in perfect attendance, OK, and straight A's and, you know, dean's list, because those I think were worthwhile, you know, endeavors. And it was important to spend my time in that way and become well-rounded.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Wells Made Important Parent Perfect Sacrifice Lists My Time Endeavor Worthwhile Dean Appreciative Well Rounded Attendance

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.”

Thinking Names Animal Compassion Sacrifice Degrade

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“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

“Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?"”

Thinking Want Needs Motivational Individual Term Principles Focus Rights Sacrifice Building Built Direct Agree

Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“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

“I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.”

Thinking Want Home Parent Difficult Sacrifice Balance Obvious Our Family Home Life Working Parents

Author:Kate Hudson

“Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.”

Thinking Want Self Fighting Forever Sacrifice Conflict Steady Selflessness Self Sacrifice

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Seems Sacrifice Integrity Hollywood Notion Scared Excuse Making Money Good Work Bullshit Doing Good

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Well, you know, I think the American people are sacrificing now. I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before.”

People Thinking Knows Wells Humor Political Waiting Lines Sacrifice Airports

Author:George W. Bush

“For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this - to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse.”

Ifs Thinking Men Sacrifice Listening Guides Neglect Sole Unborn Converses

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)

“I've always paid attention to religion because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them - other than goat sacrificing.”

Thinking Felt Religious Attention Sacrifice Grew Grew Up Paid Backgrounds Goats

Author:Brad Pitt

“If you want to make it as a sportsperson - Become knowledgeable in the sport you want to participate in. Think about the sport and what it can offer in its entirety. You shouldn't want to become a professional sportsperson because of the money. There's a lot more to gain from being involved in sport. Work hard to get what you want. If it's your ambition, go for it. You don't have to be the best in the world to make it as an elite athlete. You need to be a grafter and be prepared to sacrifice.”

“I think those who choose to find joy in serving others, those who choose to find their voice, to pursue their vocation and to act on their vision oftentimes have to sacrifice much.It's almost like a crucifixion in terms of the cross you have to bear.”

Thinking Joy Voice Term Vision Sacrifice Bears Crosses Pursue Serving Vocation Serving Others Crucifixion

Author:Cornel West

“What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice my children's present for their future. It seemed an either/or. I didn't realise that by being with one's own children I would have had a better understanding of the ones who are not my own. I was thinking of them but I didn't spend the time that they needed from me. It's a tribute to them that they came out so well.”

Thinking Wells Children Together Political Felt Understanding My Own Sacrifice Needed My Children Realising Tribute Either Or

Author:Vanessa Redgrave

“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.”

Source: Face

“Seva, love and sacrifice are the basic prerequisites for human development. If you agree with this precept, nurture good will towards all and help people to the best of your ability without expecting anything in return. Don't think, 'I will render service only when the organizers agree with me and not otherwise.' Dear brother! In that case, you will not be able to serve. You will only nurture your ego by making others agree with you.”

“Love and sacrifice are not the same thing, but they are inseparable. To think of Christ and to think of the Cross is not the same thing, but the association is so close that the implication is immediate. Where love has been preached without sacrifice, it has not led to love but to license.”

Thinking Has Beens Christ Sacrifice Crosses Association License Implications Inseparable Without Sacrifice Love And Sacrifice

Author:Hubert Van Zeller

“What I know for sure is that all the sacrifice and challenges we face are worth it if we're creating a better future for our kids. I just think if the adults are always thinking about the world we want to leave for our kids, we're going to make the right choices every single time.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Want Kids Faces Choices Challenges Sacrifice Creating Adults Worth It Better Future Always Thinking Right Choices Make The Right Choice Challenges We Face

Author:Michelle Obama

“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

“The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.”

Thinking Kind Liberty Rights Sacrifice Security Crime Solutions Threat Immigration All Kinds Communism Eras Impulse Abortion Illegal Frightened Pornography Illegal Immigration

Author:Molly Ivins

“It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.”

People Thinking Problem Walks Sacrifice Economic Willing Ought Dignity Police Shame Police Brutality Brutality Disparity

Author:Al Sharpton

“Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .”

Thinking Men Art Government Care Born Party Cases Sacrifice Subjects Mankind Human Nature Ought Demand Behavior Concerned Fellows Command Ashamed Irrational Unjust Hunts Statesmanship Command Not

Author:Aristotle

“When we make jokes about being lazy, or things that look like we're lazy parents, we don't want to make it appear like we're not also incredibly hardworking people when it comes to striving at our vocational things. I do think it's a conversation, but a lot of times, you make sacrifices for the sake of jokes, or for the sake of a scene.”

People Thinking Want Looks Parent Sacrifice Scene Conversation Jokes Strive Sake Lazy Hardworking Being Lazy

Author:Lucas Neff

“I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.”

Thinking Art Real Actors Sports Sacrifice Needed Bravery Attributes Dedication Definite Parallels Bravery And Courage

Author:Matt Smith

“I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.”

Thinking Knows Kind Effort Support Know How Sacrifice All Kinds Joints Joint Efforts

Author:Kerry Healey

“Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .”

People Thinking Should Humans Sacrifice Republican Right Now Nerves Stakes Vogue

Author:Mary McGrory

“The last couple years they've been good, but it's just a great group of guys, and they were willing to take the vision that we gave them in the beginning of the season, and we started off really well, which I think helped. But as I mentioned, Andre's sacrifice, David Lee's sacrifice, their willingness to accept roles and keep pushing really was the key to the whole thing.”

Thinking Years Wells Whole Lasts Guy Accepting Vision Roles Sacrifice Groups Willing Keys Couple Seasons Pushing Willingness Championship Nba Championships

Author:Steve Kerr

“We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Self Happens Energy Sacrifice Ready Fellows Expected Length Fellow Man Self Sacrifice Condescending

Book:President Wilson's Addresses

Source: President Wilson's Addresses

“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.”

“Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.”

Thinking Should Reason Reality Desire Evil Causes Sacrifice Bears Limits Consequence Should Have Refusal Evil Thoughts

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and I'm not just talking about just to eat. You have to think about the civil rights movement, they were putting in work; marching, walking miles and miles, sacrificing, getting on the bus, feeding one another, they had schools, voter registration, they were working! They were hard workers so my advice is to work.”

“Sacrifice doesn't really exist on a national level anymore and that's a pretty new thing - most people aren't engaged nationally in some form of service and that changes the way you think about people in your country; you kind of think of them at a distance. And so there's that shift away from some sort of sacrifice - thinking of yourself as the most important thing in the world versus thinking of yourself as some sort of a whole.”

People Thinking World Way Kind Important Country Whole Form Levels Sacrifice Important Things Distance Engaged New Things Versus Thinking Of You Thinking Of Yourself

Author:Joe Meno

“I think it's a sacrifice that you have to make, because you lay yourself open for people to accuse and disrespect you. But it's worth it. It's worth it because not too many people are too honest anymore.”

People Thinking Sacrifice Honest Lays Worth It Disrespect

Author:Ronnie Radke

“Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.”

Thinking Want Needs Heart Certain Goal Clear Sacrifice Honest What You Want Commit Objectives Being Honest Clear Goals

Author:Sophia Loren

“I think whatever it is you decide to do in life, if you want to be the very best at it, you have to be able to make sacrifices. Not everybody can do that and I think it makes our sportsmen and women that little bit special.”

Ifs Thinking Want Littles Able Bits Can Do Sacrifice Special Little Bit Men And Women Sportsman

Author:Jill Douglas

“I think that you sign a sort of unwritten contract when you become a public figure, when you become an actor, that you're sacrificing a certain amount of privacy and parts of your life change.”

Thinking Certain Actors Sacrifice Figures Amount Life Changing Privacy Contracts Unwritten Public Figures

Author:Olivia Wilde

“I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.”

Thinking War Country Remember Used Spirit Sides Sacrifice Tragedy Our Country Features Civil War Heroism Both Sides Redeeming Watergate

Author:Sam Ervin

“I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieved, that you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone; and that, while we commemorate the... the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.”

Source: The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies

“A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Humans Reason Process Sacrifice Built Imperfection Muse Oblivion Altars Ratios Tokens Human Imperfection

Book:Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005

Source: Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005

“I want our enemies to understand that don't think that their violent acts are going to cause this president to leave before the job is done. And I want our troops to understand we respect them and that the sacrifices they make are noble and necessary for peace.”

Thinking Want Done Jobs Causes President Enemy Sacrifice Noble Violent Troops Our Troops Violent Acts

Author:George W. Bush

“If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.”

People Ifs Thinking Art Opinion Sacrifice Huge Cost Prepared Be Prepared Great Art Think Of You Personal Sacrifice

Author:Romola Garai

“Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.”

Thinking Children Hard Joy Artist Loss Sacrifice Family Life

Author:Kathy Baker

“I'll quit eating meat when you get a cow out here to beat me at a poetry slam. Only so many words rhyme with 'Mooo.' I mean, yes, we're supposed to be better stewards; yes, we're supposed to take care of the earth; yes, we're supposed to honor the sacrifices made by the animals; yes yes yes yes yes, but dammit, we're in charge, and you know why? It's because of these [holding out thumbs]...Maybe you think that carrots are less important than cows. I think they're equal, especially in a sauce.”

Thinking Knows Mean Made Important Care Earth Animal Sacrifice Honor Equal Eating Beats Take Care Quitting Supposed To Be Meat Cows Rhyme Thumbs Sauce Slam Carrots Stewards Eating Meat

Author:Sherman Alexie

“When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.”

Thinking Men Sacrifice Independent Richness Conformist Independent Thinking

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching screeching at each other, stop hurting each other, and instead start caring for, sacrificing for and sharing with each other ... We cannot move forward if cynics and critics swoop down and pick apart anything that goes wrong, to a point where we lose sight of what is right, decent and uniquely good about America.”

Ifs Thinking America Moving Loses Hurt Sacrifice Picks Sight Down And Critics Caring Moving Forward Decent Hurting Each Other

Author:Colin Powell

“The heart that delights in God and longs only to see His glory advance will seldom be conscious of sacrifice. God in His wisdom asks that we first love Him and then live in keeping with that core value. He does not want His people to think of what they do as sacrificial, even though from the world's point of view it may be just that. Gratitude for grace of God will always be found near the center of the Biblical Christian's most powerful motivations.”

“I actually think being an entrepreneur is a state of mind. If you're going to be an entrepreneur, my thesis is that you have to sacrifice everything for some period in your life to be successful. You have to be myopic and completely focused and unbalanced in every way. Once you've achieved success, you're free to do whatever you like.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mind States Successful Sacrifice Periods Entrepreneur Focused Being Successful State Of Mind Thesis Achieved Success Unbalanced Myopic

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“Since the Icelandic volcano obviously needs a virgin sacrifice and the Catholic Church obviously needs new leadership the Pope must volunteer to jump in the volcano. Pontiff, don't think of it as endorsing paganism, think of it as supersizing Ash Wednesday.”

Thinking Needs Church Sacrifice Catholic Ashes Pope Volunteer Virgins Catholic Church Paganism Wednesday Volcanoes Endorsing Ash Wednesday

Author:Bill Maher

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