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A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
Nigel Short

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma Gandhi

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
Kemal Ataturk

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.
Wilhelm Steinitz

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
Mike Ferguson

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
Sargent Shriver

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James M. Barrie

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer

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

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Leigh Hunt

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
Edward Everett

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Muriel Rukeyser