Quotes About Sacrificing Too Much

#1. All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#2. She did understand about sacrificing values for the sake of love. It was a lesson all mothers had to memorize.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#3. Artists, who are selfish people, become anxious around the self-sacrificing

Karan Mahajan

#4. The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

Richard Rohr

#5. A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#6. It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.

Efim Geller

#7. Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

Katey Sagal

#8. Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

J.C. Ryle

#9. don't. I don't know about you, but if I'm gonna be chained to a rock by the gods, I'd rather go out as the person who brought fire back from the mountain than as a pure princess who didn't have the sense to say to everyone, "Oh, hell no, you are not sacrificing me to some sea monster!

Libba Bray

#10. Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he'd both created and destroyed his body's energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing power at the origin of himself.

E.J. Koh

#11. And so love and sacrifice is the law of Christ. "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." The law of Christ is the bearing of others' burdens, the sharing of others' griefs, sacrificing yourself for another.

A.B. Simpson

#12. Being famous very often means sacrificing your privacy and that of others. You have to impose on those close to you a pace and lifestyle that might be a bigger sacrifice for others than it is for you.

Giorgio Armani

#13. The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

Emma Goldman

#14. It is quite in the order of things in folk-tales . . . that a parent should purchase his own safety by sacrificing his son to a ferocious animal or to a supernatural enemy.

C. Fillingham Coxwell

#15. Love was sacrificing your selfish nature for someone you were more committed to than yourself

Tarryn Fisher

#16. There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.

Warren G. Harding

#17. Sacrificing minions: is there any problem it CAN'T solve?

Rich Burlew

#18. I cannot respond to the call, the request, the obligation, or even the love of another, without sacrificing the other other, the other others

Jacques Derrida

#19. Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it would try to force them to be self-sacrificing.

Frederic Bastiat

#20. It's encouraging to watch what people will do to contribute to a love story. It's as though we universally recognize the union of souls is worth sacrificing for.

Donald Miller

#21. It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Maria Mitchell

#22. Just as altruism tells an individual that however much he is sacrificing, his duty is to sacrifice more, the Progressives concluded that however much Americans were giving, morality required them to give more.

Yaron Brook

#23. clinging to modesty in the age of the Others is like sacrificing a goat to make it rain.

Rick Yancey

#24. If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

Francis De Sales

#25. Not having children is seen as supremely selfish, as though the people having children were selflessly sacrificing themselves in a valiant attempt to ensure the survival of our endangered species and fill up this vast and underpopulated island of ours.

Geoff Dyer

#26. The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.'
'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow.
'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

Neil Gaiman

#27. Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

Sandra Bernhard

#28. I would do anything for him, even if it meant sacrificing something of myself.

Tara Sivec

#29. A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent ... sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.

John Quincy Adams

#30. All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

John Piper