Top 100 Quotes About Sacrifice
#1. A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.
Benjamin Disraeli
#2. The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
James Otis
#3. We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.
William Hazlitt
#4. I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.
Thor Heyerdahl
#5. That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#6. But you will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man who bears me. Already your horn has been raised, and your wrath has been kindled, and your star has passed by, and your heart has become strong. [
Jesus to Judas]
Rodolphe Kasser
#7. As teachers and coaches, we must remember that when mere winning is our only goal, we are doomed to disappointment and failure. But when our goal is to try to win, when our focus is on preparation and sacrifice and effort instead of on numbers on a scoreboard then we will never lose.
Mike Krzyzewski
#8. Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
George Eliot
#9. You sacrifice the few to save the many.
Joel Osteen
#10. Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they stand in competition with the rights of society.
John Adams
#11. Men who fear to make the sacrifice of love will have to fight
Toyohiko Kagawa
#12. Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.
Andrew Schneider
#13. You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.
Josh Turner
#14. Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again.
Stanley Hauerwas
#15. The universe and the law of attraction speak a language that knows no words, only discerning your intent through sacrifice and what you are willing to give up.
Forrest Curran
#16. Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.
Bela Karolyi
#17. Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.
Philip Neri
#18. So what are you suggesting?" Grandfather asked. "We find a more acceptable group of people, then bring the Sacrifice to them? How do you propose we find them, a Facebook post? 'Click here to apply for eternal life'?
Hilary Duff
#19. Layney - "I hear they sell them at Evil 'R Us. You have an account
there, don't you? Maybe you can pick one up on the 'still
beating/just pulled from a sacrifice' aisle."
Jimmy - "Do you have any idea how expensive those are? Even with
my discount.
Gwen Hayes
#20. Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.
Clarence Thomas
#21. We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.
Myles Munroe
#22. Whoever is willing to sacrifice his life for God will always be under God's protection
Sunday Adelaja
#23. And with dream-awakened eyes, she saw all the beauty around her, saw the sea, felt the sun, and knew she had to vanish for a while from the human plane and make every sacrifice in order to create her world anew out of the depths.
Charlotte Salomon
#24. Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.
Carrie Underwood
#25. To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
Steve Prefontaine
#26. And now too late, we see these things are one:
The art is sacrifice and self-control
And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
Alice Duer Miller
#27. The kipper was in a race for it's life, and it knew it. It used all the skill its Maker had given it and drew the creature far away from the craft, to be sacrifice in the end. It was a fitting task for the kipper. But ... there is a thing about monsters. They remember.
Kathy Frias
#28. Because we're not what we eat. We're what we do, and what we sacrifice, and what we love. And if we choose right more often than we choose wrong, we become who we want to be.
Greg Van Eekhout
#29. I want to show what hard work and dedication and sacrifice can achieve.
Tito Ortiz
#30. I didn't accept your sacrifice. I turned it down." I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past my lips.
"Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?
Becca Fitzpatrick
#31. The human act of blind faith, whether in a god or man, is both noble and tragic. Tragic, because it demands the sacrifice of the very essence of our intellect - the ability to question.
Vladimir Pozner
#32. How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
Eric Hoffer
#33. There is a personal sacrifice required to realize God's passion
Sunday Adelaja
#34. As expected, extreme and complete isolation was the cause of her immense strength and speed. God help us all, we will send her to the Forest to see how long she lasts, to better understand her. It is through her sacrifice that we grow stronger. It is through His glory that we survive. I
Carrie Ryan
#35. I have no large desire to sacrifice much of my personal habits, intellectual pleasures, and personal standards in order to become a billionaire like Warren Buffett, and I certainly do not see point of becoming one if I were to adopt Spartan (even miserly) habits and live in my starter house.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#36. Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable - their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.
Michelle Obama
#37. Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.
Anthony Liccione
#38. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.
Guy Finley
#39. Religions - most of them, anyway - had promoted self-effacement, sacrifice, restraint.
Nancy Kress
#40. I'd confused need with love and love with sacrifice.
Gail Caldwell
#41. Revolutionaries are born the moment they find a cause worthy of sacrifice.
Daniel K. Norris
#42. It's how the English run their courts. They sacrifice innocents, thinking to keep evil at bay, and call it a kind of justice. But they are no more just than this pole is a man.
Kathleen Kent
#43. I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust.
David Levithan
#44. You exalt me Bati,
This is the message to the society,
Brightest day demands
struggling, suffering and sacrifice,
heroic labor would suffice.
Ankita Singhal
#45. 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.
Fred Wilson
#46. Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.
Bryan Davis
#49. Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity.
Gordon S. Wood
#50. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.
David Livingstone
#51. The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
Jimi Hendrix
#52. We live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.
Hannah More
#53. Everyone says that love requires the utmost honesty, but that's not entirely true. Once I knew that my father was suffering for my sake - really suffering - I learned that love, especially the parental kind, requires the heartwarming sacrifice that can only accompany fake enthusiasm.
Sarah Vowell
#54. Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.
Jim George
#55. Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
Nancy Pelosi
#57. When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.
Chris Rock
#58. Every day another miracle
Only death will tear us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart
Sting
#59. The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It's not easy. But absolutely worth it.
Robin Sharma
#60. The word worship is defined by glory and thanksgiving. We are worshiping when we give glory to something. Whatever we give glory to, we sacrifice for.
Jefferson Bethke
#61. The Eucharist is a never-ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the supreme love, the act of love.
Katharine Drexel
#62. Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot decline and neglect your duty to your own hurt alone, many will be losers by it as well as you.
Richard Baxter
#63. For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one.
Christopher Hitchens
#64. Gwendolen. How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.
Oscar Wilde
#65. Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.
Winston Churchill
#66. My generation is the most fatherless and insecure generation that's ever lived, and we are willing to sacrifice everything if we just can be told we are loved.
If only we knew just how loved we really are.
Jefferson Bethke
#67. I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like this when they were doing human sacrifice ... [Your children] are acting out Satanic rituals and participating in it, and don't even realize it.
Pat Robertson
#68. CHRIST IS ADVOCATE. [1 Jn. 2:1, 2] My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father - Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
Anonymous
#69. To get into the consumer's mind, you have to sacrifice. You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute. An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
Al Ries
#70. Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather, it is a heart bent on sacrifice that is the most potent weapon of all.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#71. Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.
Nikola Tesla
#72. Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice
Josephine Hart
#73. If we want proof of God's love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God's love for us.
Jerry Bridges
#74. I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#75. But love isn't just about feeling good. It's about doing what you don't want to do, over and over again, if it needs to be done, for the sake of someone else. Love is really about self-sacrifice.
Meg Meeker
#76. What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future. You need wisdom to sacrifice something that is immediately useful or advantageous for the sake of something that will be important in the future.
Christian De Duve
#77. I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.
Mick Taylor
#78. Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
#79. Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
Eric Hoffer
#80. For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
Aldous Huxley
#81. I remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.
Rick Riordan
#82. Well, there was a time when we used to sacrifice goats, but then we all became vegans, so we've been sacrificing tofu before the shows!
Jared Leto
#83. If their hearts get fragile, I'll become their support. If they are threatened, I'll become their shield. I'll sacrifice myself any day to protect everyone. That's why I came back!!" ~ Kiyoshi Teppei
Tadatoshi Fujimaki
#84. It became clear to me that they expected children to submit to the school system and sacrifice their own interests, even if that would break their spirit. I
Jan Hunt
#85. If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
Charles Studd
#86. Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.
Marvin Hagler
#87. A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
Jalal Talabani
#88. The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge
#89. I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.
Ayn Rand
#90. Myrrh (Arabic, "bitter") was used for the healing of wounds and bruises. Myrrh was also a symbol of self-sacrifice. [329]
Marianna Bartold
#91. In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.
Mahatma Gandhi
#92. It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin
#93. Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.
Jacques Maritain
#94. If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.
Romola Garai
#95. The convictions we need to rally around should be about life giving, community transformation, holistic personal growth, sacrifice, beauty, blessing, and world renewal. Who wouldn't want to be a part of a people committed to something that brings personal meaning and makes the world a better place?
Hugh Halter
#96. Why did they have to sacrifice anything?"
"It was a symbol," Grandmother explains. "Of an innocent dying on behalf of someone else - the greatest act of love. A choice to die so someone else doesn't have to.
Emily Henry
#97. Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#98. Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.
Zayn Malik
#99. It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
William Penn
#100. We can only sacrifice so much of ourselves in a relationship before there's nothing left to love or be loved.
Tiffany Reisz
