An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Our only concern should be to keep the fight [for souls] aggressive and to win victory regardless of cost or sacrifice.

Why would I accept to earn less money to play for Barcelona? Why are players the ones supposed to sacrifice themselves?

Thank God there has been no recurrence of 9/11. It is not because of luck - it is because of mass sacrifice and effort.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

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

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

We witness so many people lose themselves in this industry, and sacrifice who they really are for success and accolades.

Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.

Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

At the end of the day, we all want to win, so everybody has to sacrifice when you want to be a part of something special.

Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.

Worship is living our life individually and corporately as continuous living sacrifices to the glory of a person or thing.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

I will fight till my last breath for the sake of 3.5 crore people of Telangana. I am ready to make any sacrifice for them.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

Just keep being true to yourself, if you're passionate about something go for it. Don't sacrifice anything, just have fun.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, 'I want to do that,' and sacrifice the fact it might not be very good.

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

We have kind of turned our back on the fact that hard work, sacrifice, risk-taking, innovation, is what made America great.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

The journey has definitely not been easy, but all the sacrifice has paid off very well in terms of my performance on-court.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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