Top 82 Sacrifice Yourself Quotes
#1. Never sacrifice yourself for love, remember it should improve your vision not change your sight
Nikki Rowe
#2. Back so soon?" he asked. "Too bad. I was just about to organize a search for your dead body. What happened when you knocked on the southerner magician's door to sacrifice yourself? Did they kick you out, thinking you too half-witted to waste their time on?
Maria V. Snyder
#3. You know what makes me feel down? The way you keep promising to live some kind of a life, then sacrifice yourself to every waif and stray who comes across your path.
Jojo Moyes
#4. It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.
Patrice Evra
#5. How many of you would sacrifice yourself to not kill, but merely hurt your enemy?
Pierce Brown
#6. Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.
Mason Cooley
#7. Martyrs, you see, are like bees. Their only power comes in death. How many of you would sacrifice yourself not to kill, but merely hurt your enemy?
Pierce Brown
#8. Harry, you'd do anything for anybody. You were pretty happy to sacrifice yourself for the world. He needs to feel specific love. It'll make him stronger, and you stronger too.
Jack Thorne
#9. You were going to sacrifice yourself to save everyone else?"
I cringed. "Then I wimped out.
Carrie Jones
#10. Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
#11. I'm not a little woman you need to defend.'
His face hardened. 'That's exactly what you are: you're my little woman and I'm not having you sacrifice yourself for me.
Joss Stirling
#12. Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.
Tim Hetherington
#13. How can you possibly think I'd want you to sacrifice yourself to save me? As if there wasn't enough danger, now I have to worry you'll take a bullet for me."
My arms crossed as his anger ignited my own.
"As if, you jerk. You can take your own stupid bullet.
Corrine Jackson
#15. This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values ...
Laurie Halse Anderson
#16. How many times would you do it, you think? How many times would you sacrifice yourself for good?"
"Every time," I answer automatically.
Suzanne Young
#17. Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.
Mark Twight
#18. When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.
Iyanla Vanzant
#19. And if you must sacrifice yourself, do that by marrying me. I'm not an easy man. You'll earn your martyr's crown before you're done. Don't condemn both of us to an eternity of unhappiness just because you're too stiff-necked to face society's censure.
Anna Campbell
#20. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.
Rick Warren
#21. Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.
Laura Schlessinger
#22. Recognize the cost is your life, and willingly lay yourself down. The world hates the smell of that sacrifice, because it is the smell of grace. They hate it because it is the smell of something living and burning at the same time - something that is impossible without a risen Savior.
Tony Reinke
#23. There's a particular kind of suffering to be experienced when you love something greater than yourself. A tender sacrifice.
Lang Leav
#24. Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.
Seth Adam Smith
#25. Usually it seems like either you sacrifice something and a lot of people will pay attention, or you stay true to yourself and appeal to a smaller group of people, but now we've managed to do what we felt was the right thing to do in our heart and had it reach a wide audience. It feels very rare.
Jack Antonoff
#26. Put your Isaac on the altar! Then, and only then, will you see what God can do. He cannot give back what you do not give up. But if you surrender yourself to Him, He will provide the ram in the thicket.
Mark Batterson
#27. Do you think someone someone who'd sacrifice himself so easily, is worth as the same as the life someone so precious?
In other words, you consider her an absolute fool who would try to protect a worthless trash as yourself.
CLAMP
#28. If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.
Apolo Ohno
#29. To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.
Vironika Tugaleva
#30. The ultimate altruism is nothing but the sacrifice of one's self for the benefit of others. Love yourself but never forget to be altruistic to others in need.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening ... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit ... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.
Marc Blucas
#32. I think it's a sacrifice that you have to make, because you lay yourself open for people to accuse and disrespect you. But it's worth it. It's worth it because not too many people are too honest anymore.
Ronnie Radke
#33. She didn't mind the sacrifice. It seemed enough for a life, to give yourself to music the way nuns give themselves to God. To vow. To surrender. Only music, after all, made life bearable. Only with music did she feel--what was it? Free? Happy? No, it was something else. Awake.
Carolina De Robertis
#34. I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole.
Mario Cuomo
#35. Never ask of your men a sacrifice you wouldn't make yourself. Never make them fight in conditions you would refuse to fight in yourself. Never ask a man to perform an act you wouldn't soil your own hands doing.
Brandon Sanderson
#36. A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi
#37. My thing is just staying positive. Find that thing you love doing and dedicate yourself to it. You're going to have to sacrifice a lot of things if you want to achieve the goals you want to achieve.
Derrick Rose
#38. Whatever your goal is: dedicate yourself to it and it's going to be a lot of sacrifice, but if you love what you want to do, it shouldn't be a problem.
Derrick Rose
#39. For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
#40. Whenever you feel compelled to put others first at the expense of yourself, you are denying your own reality, your own identity.
David Stafford
#41. My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.
Chelsea Handler
#42. The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
Larry Flynt
#43. God is the creator of love. He demonstrated His love to you through the sacrificial death of His Son. The closer you draw to God the more you will demonstrate your love for others by becoming a living sacrifice by putting others before yourself.
DeWayne Owens
#44. I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#45. Ten minutes are not just one-sixth of your hourly pay; ten minutes is a piece of yourself. Divide yourself into ten units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activities. Most things still remain to be done.
Ingvar Kamprad
#46. If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
Epictetus
#47. Love means giving yourself to the person you love,being willing to sacrifice everything,even your pride
Elaine Barbieri
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. A marriage with Christ at the center of it pulls you right out of yourself. It teaches each partner, the husband and the wife, to forget about self for a while in care and sacrifice for the other. We come to ourselves by losing ourselves.
J. Budziszewski
#51. Give up your heart and you lose your way
Trusting another to feel that way.
Give up your heart and you find yourself living for something in somebody else.
Sometimes you wonder what happens to love.
Sometimes the touch of a friend is enough.
Jackson Browne
#52. Sometimes the sacrifice of love costs too much to pay by yourself.
Shelly Crane
#53. The first duty is to sacrifice to the gods and pray them to grant you the thought,words, and deeds likely to render your command most pleasing to the gods and bring yourself, your friends, and your city the fullest measure of affection and glory and advantage
Xenophon
#54. 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
#56. Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.
Matt Smith
#57. Acting was all about making yourself feel things-love,rage,euphoria,agony. She had to unlearn those things now. She had to teach herself not to feel. Refusing to feel hurt also meant she numbed herself to joy, but the sacrifice was worth it.
Susan Wiggs
#58. With all the differences and misunderstandings, meeting halfway is the only way to show that both of you are willing to sacrifice a portion of yourself for the benefit of both ...
NerD_Seyer
#59. Letting go is not about giving up, being lazy, or sacrificing yourself... Letting go doesn't have to mean losing; it can be about coming into a new, open, clean space from which you can create.
Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble
#60. It seems that for some people the idea of compassion entails a complete disregard for or even a sacrifice of their own interests. This is not the case. In fact, you first of all have to have a wish to be happy yourself - if you don't love yourself like that, how can you love others?
Dalai Lama
#61. It's about knowing that in certain moments you have to offer yourself up as a minor sacrifice to help them accomplish what they need to accomplish. Letting them abuse you, on the other hand, would be a terrible disservice. I know it seems like a fine line, but it's a real one, and it can be done.
Patrick Lencioni
#62. Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
Bobby Bowden
#63. You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
Zaha Hadid
#64. When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn't really feel like a sacrifice.
Kiera Cass
#65. This was exactly why they'd failed: never being satisfied with what a person had to give, always expecting so much sacrifice that you had to hate yourself for anything less.
Sonya Huber
#66. A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
Mother Teresa
#67. I love you, he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces.
Jodi Picoult
#68. If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they'd love you more.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#69. In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.
Orhan Pamuk
#70. You didn't find strength when you couldn't live without it. You found it when you had someone or something you loved so much that it forced you to stretch the edges of yourself further than you thought was possible.
Martina Boone
#71. To me you have to commit yourself to the sacrifice, because it's so important. Even if people don't agree, they appreciate commitment.
Ed Fallon
#72. Just keep being true to yourself, if you're passionate about something go for it. Don't sacrifice anything, just have fun.
Blake Lewis
#73. Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
Georgette Heyer
#75. Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.
Ellen G. White
#76. I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list.
Michelle Obama
#77. ...it was born out of habits of mind produced by Christianity: that if you sacrificed yourself you would somehow attain the object of your desires. It was a knife of an idea, a cruel instrument of sacrifice...
Peter Carey
#78. Purpose is a higher level of living, where you live more for others than you live for yourself.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#79. Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
#80. Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots
David Blatt
#81. Let us never be afraid of innocent joy; God is good and what he does is well done; resign yourself to everything, even happiness; ask for the spirit of sacrifice, of detachment, of renunciation, and above all, for the spirit of joy and gratitude.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#82. Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
Herbie Mann