Quotes About Sacrifice

For centuries, the paesani of Roseto worked in the marble quarries in the surrounding hills, or cultivated the fields in the terraced valley below, walking four and five miles down the mountain in the morning and then making the long journey back up the hill at night. Life was hard. The townsfolk were barely literate and desperately poor

The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You don't give up. You double down. As Festinger recalled in an oral history, One of the things we expected would happen would be that, after the disconfirmation of this prediction...they would...have to discard their belief, but to the extent that they were committed to it, this would be difficult to do.

the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction—the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You don't give up. You double down.

It was not the privileged and the fortunate who took in the Jews in France. It was the marginal and the damaged, which should remind us that there are real limits to what evil and misfortune can accomplish.

What did Festinger make of all this? The more you invest in a set of beliefs—the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction—the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You don't give up. You double down.

All positive traits, states, and experiences have costs that at high levels may begin to outweigh their benefits.

more you invest in a set of beliefs—the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction—the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You don't give up. You double down.

where winning cost us so much morally?

Come to me, that I may give your flesh to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field

My great-great-great-grandmother was bought at Alligator Pond.

Bent double, groaning with the weight, an old lame Indian was carrying on his back, by means of a strap looped over his forehead, another poor Indian, yet older and more decrepit than himself. He carried the older man and his crutches, trembling in every limb under this weight of the past, he carried both their burdens.

Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]

The divers were the bravest of us. They gave their lives for the independence of our country and the success of our revolution.

No amount of success - whatever that means, quote-unquote success - no amount of success replaces the reality of being separated from my family for this long.

If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.

The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

Desire to give and not always receive.

The speed of your success is limited only by your dedication and what you're willing to sacrifice

If it takes lots of patience, sacrifice and devotion to achieve the thing you've desired, for sure you have set your targets high and you're going through immense pain to reach there.Just don't quit.

If you love someone you would do anything for them right?Now imagine you are that someone. Give yourself the gift of everything you want

The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

Those who reach for the Sun, usually drop the world.

It's a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.

If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.