Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. [ Emerson ]
Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Good actions are the best sacrifices we can offer to God. [ Proverb ]
Vows are the false money that pays for the sacrifices of love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Temperance, courage, love, are made up of the same jewels. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The happiness of married life depends upon the power of making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. [ Selden ]
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifices; no one ever escapes without a stain from the struggle of life. [ Renan ]
Self-sacrifice is a thing that should be put down by law. It is so demoralizing to the people for whom one sacrifices oneself. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Character is made up of small duties faithfully performed - of self-denials, of self-sacrifices, of kindly acts of love and duty. [ Anonymous ]
He that prolongs his meals, and sacrifices his time as well as his other conveniences, to his luxury, how quickly does be outset his pleasure! [ South ]
Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship comes like dawning moonlight. Love will obtain and possess; friendship makes sacrifices but asks nothing. [ Geibel ]
Nature sent women into the world that they might be mothers and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered, and from whom none can be obtained. [ Jean Paul ]
Many sacrifices have been made just to enjoy the feeling of vengeance, without any intention of causing an amount of injury equivalent to what one has suffered. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Ponder the lives of the glorious in art; or literature through all ages. What are they but records of toils and sacrifices, supported by the earnest hearts of their votaries? [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]
The coquette compromises her reputation, and sometimes saves her virtue: the prude, on the contrary, often sacrifices her honor in secret, and preserves it in public opinion. [ Mme. du Socage ]
Oh, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues, would be seen reposing there! [ Richter ]
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort. [ Sir Humphry Davy ]
A thorough miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr. [ W. B. Clulow ]
Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. [ F. W. Robertson ]