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Quotes About Sacrifice

God is a luxury I can't afford.
~ Martin Landau
Until you have enough money accumulated, sacrifice luxury. Sacrifice TV, time out, and even time with your family and friends.
~ Ryan Blair
In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
~ Randeep Hooda
Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
~ Edgar Degas
Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
~ Bono
I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.
~ Kevin Costner
Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
~ Linus Torvalds
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.
~ Max Weber
With any method of attaining great wealth, there is a price, and price is not always measured in money
~ Robert Kiyosaki
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
~ Ad Reinhardt
A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had to sacrifice was their talent.
~ Claude Rains
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.
~ Esther Williams
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
~ Gottfried Reinhardt
I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.
~ Steven Van Zandt
Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.
~ Alice Neel
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
~ Anthony Trollope
My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!
~ Paul Gauguin
Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.
~ Aristotle
I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.
~ Brian Welch
Big movies are fun and it's great to fly on private jets and make a lot of money and all the things that are connected with Hollywood, but they take a lot of your own life.
~ Val Kilmer