Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes..

Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-….

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice..

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice..

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….

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. The….

My own views on all matters of public revenue and public expenditure are conditioned by an acute appreciation of whose is the sacrifice that produces….

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic ….

It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices….

The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings ar….

If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said….

My prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death is all for Allah, The Lord of The Worlds..

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for..

In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensat….

In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word, rough….

At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice doesn't ga….

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors..

My parents said they had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay for my education... because they were both druids..

Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace..

Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so the audience coul….

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than com….