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  • The U.S. liberated Iraq from a tyrant. I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude, and I believe most Iraqis express that. I mean, the people understand that we've endured great sacrifice to help them. That's the problem here in America. They wonder whether or not there is a gratitude level that's significant enough in Iraq.

  • I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

  • Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

    "A Veterans Day Story" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.
  • Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that we love one another.

  • Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

    Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.273, Penguin
  • The Mars Polar Lander cost the average American the price of half a cheeseburger. A human lander would cost the average American more - perhaps even ten cheeseburgers! So be it. That is no great sacrifice.

    "A Continent Bleeds" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. May 3, 2000.
  • If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

    Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.47, Courier Corporation
  • To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

    "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.
  • Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

    Essays "Circles" (1841)
  • In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.

  • When someone works for less pay than she can live on - when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently - then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life.

    Sacrifice   Example   Pay  
    "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001.
  • [Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently attempting to originate new ones; considering that, however necessary to the advancement of science, they demanded a great sacrifice of time, and that when the fact was once established, that time was better employed in considering the purposes to which it might be applied, or the principles which it might tend to elucidate.

  • 'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it.

    Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.259, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

  • Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

  • It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

  • And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

  • Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

  • Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

    Time   Sacrifice   Men  
    Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf
  • Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.

    Sacrifice   Men   Grace  
  • Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.

    Life   Kindness   Heart  
  • The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

    Fate   Sacrifice   Hands  
    Speech in Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.
  • Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

    Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
  • Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.

    Twitter post from Sep 08, 2016
  • What are you doing for others?

    Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr
  • The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

  • Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

    Passion   Sacrifice   Law  
  • Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

    Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”
  • Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

    Life   Family   Smile  
    Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.448
  • They never fail who die in a great cause.

    Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1218, Delphi Classics
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