Top 100 To Sacrifice Quotes
#1. We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#2. You have been saved through a dying sacrifice, so you are free to be a living one.
Timothy J. Keller
#3. In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain ... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk ...
Graham Sutherland
#4. I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
Lauren Oliver
#5. I always wanted to be a hero
to sacrifice my life in a big way one time
and yet, God has required my sacrifice to be thousands of days, over many years, with one more kiss, one more story, one more meal.
Sally Clarkson
#6. GRATIANO
I have a wife I love. I wish she were in heaven so she could appeal to some power to make this dog Jew change his mind.
NERISSA
It's nice you're offering to sacrifice her behind her back. That wish of yours could start quite an argument back at home.
William Shakespeare
#7. Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.
Ayn Rand
#8. 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
#9. First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice.
Elizabeth Berg
#10. I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#11. Whether we speak of the death to self or a sinking down in humility and meekness before God or faith in the Lamb of God, it all means one thing - a deliverance from self to find our liberty and our blessedness in the living sacrifice of ourselves for all around us. THE END
Andrew Murray
#13. Something I learned from the Serbian tribes. Churches are built where saints were martyred. A bridge requires a child in its foundations if it is to hold. All great works must begin with a sacrifice.
Grady Hendrix
#14. Big success requires big sacrifices. Don't find out later that the cost was too high. Denial is said to be even more potent than cocaine; neither drug enhances your marketability.
K Callan
#15. 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
#16. For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.
Boleslaw Prus
#17. You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.
Ivan Glasenberg
#18. I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
Oscar Wilde
#19. The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering
a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.
John Piper
#20. Worship is about something we do. It involves sacrifice. But at the heart of the gospel is this truth, we are called and chosen by God to join in with the dance of the trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Tim Hughes
#21. Looking for peaceful ways to save the world is a charming idea. The fact is worlds are saved and freedom is gained through the blood and pain of those who are willing to sacrifice and fight for it. Are you a dreamer or are you a fighter?
Kolleen Fraser
#22. We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.
Karen Traviss
#23. I am a man, not a movement," he said. "But if a movement is what it takes to end this war, then I will play my part.
Victoria Schwab
#24. Through Him, therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name. Hebrews 13:15
Joyce Meyer
#25. The thing about a marine is that they can be the nicest men and women you will ever meet, but when it comes to their duty there are none fiercer.
Joshua Mcnutt
#27. Most people think the biggest sacrifice, the greates act of love you can give is to die for someone. And probably it is. But Sometimes it is the opposite. The biggest thing you can do for someone is to live.
Sarah Wylie
#28. Jesus' blood was shed for us all; what remains is for us to accept His sacrifice in faith and obedience.
Kenneth Boa
#29. Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.
Barack Obama
#30. Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.
Hermann Hesse
#31. The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But ... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?
Martin Luther King Jr.
#32. I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#33. If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
Horace Mann
#35. What are you will to sacrifice for success? Whatever it is, don't sacrifice your values, your morals, your principles. Not worth it.
Richie Norton
#36. Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.
Dick Morris
#37. We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#38. A man's life is worth much more than any sacrifice, no matter how great. For the greatest, the most just, the noblest cause on earth is the right to live ...
Yasmina Khadra
#39. 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
#40. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Joan Of Arc
#41. I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it.
Chris Matakas
#42. It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.
Jodi Picoult
#43. Your Sacrifices Create The Run Way For Your Blessings, It Has To Be A Sacrifice From You To Attract God's Attention
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#44. Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.
Ayn Rand
#45. Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.
[Mr Harrington's washing]
W. Somerset Maugham
#46. The difference when you have kids comes up when someone wants to meet you out after 9:30 at night. You consider that giant sacrifice. You're like, Do I do this? Do I stay out until 10:30 and be angry, all of tomorrow?
Adam Sandler
#47. Not all of us are called to die a martyr's death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.
Richard Wurmbrand
#48. In order to tame death, they refuse to completely enjoy life. In rejecting complete enjoyment, they are half-dead in advance - and that with no guarantee that their sacrifice will actually benefit them when all is done.
Tom Robbins
#49. The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.
Ezra Klein
#50. It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.
Ayn Rand
#51. Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can't.
Mario Balotelli
#52. I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career.
Torii Hunter
#53. There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. What are you prepared to give for your dream? If it is not everything ... stop pipe dreaming.
T.F. Hodge
#55. There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance
do not sacrifice that to anything else.
John D. Rockefeller
#56. Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#57. The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.
Shannon L. Alder
#58. At last she sighed.
But the most wretched thing - is it not? - is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice.
Gustave Flaubert
#59. It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.
Paul Brunton
#60. To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become
Eric Thomas
#61. The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.
Cesar Chavez
#62. You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
Zaha Hadid
#63. If you have to pray and sacrifice an animal to purify your heart, that is not a prayer. That is pure hatred.
Debasish Mridha
#64. The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.
John Ensign
#65. Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.
Andy Murray
#66. By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.
David Lloyd George
#67. So next time your selflessness is praised in front of others, beware: making sacrifices for others makes it easier for them to sacrifice you.
Daniel M. Wegner
#68. If the law could be changed, man might have been saved without the sacrifice of Christ; but the fact that it was necessary for Christ to give his life for the fallen race, proves that the law of God will not release the sinner from its claims upon him.
Ellen G. White
#69. When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn't really feel like a sacrifice.
Kiera Cass
#70. Never sacrifice happiness for the sake of achievement. The real key to life is to happily achieve
Robin Sharma
#71. When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.
Simon Sinek
#72. Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.
Charles Spurgeon
#73. Love gives us happiness, peace then it gives us a lot of pain and you also have to sacrifice your happiness, then you began to hate that person, so fall for friendships. Respect each other's space and styles, then hangout and enjoy
Shaikh Ashraf
#74. I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
Katy Perry
#75. Sometimes you sacrifice legibility to increase impact.
Herb Lubalin
#76. No man wants to marry, Finnula. There are just some women they can't have any other way, and so it is a sacrifice willingly made in order to attain a particularly choice -
Meg Cabot
#77. I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us.
Ray Lewis
#78. Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.
Charles Scott Sherrington
#79. There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#80. We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#81. I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus ... If I have to sacrifice everything ... I will.
Rachel Scott
#82. To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#83. This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values ...
Laurie Halse Anderson
#84. It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only 6 miles long and 2 miles wide.
Barack Obama
#85. Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.
Mason Cooley
#86. You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears.
Graham Greene
#87. Jane, will you marry me?"
"Yes sir."
"A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?"
"Yes, sir."
"A crippled man, twenty years older older than you, whom you will have to wait on?"
"Yes, sir."
"Truly, Jane?"
"Most truly, sir.
Charlotte Bronte
#89. Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.
Lee Ellis
#90. It was not in her nature to stop short at half-measures, not to pause when once she had fixed her purpose. If she ever trembled on looking forward to the utter ruin she was about to encounter, her second emotion was to despise herself for such pusillanimity, and to be roused to renewed energy.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#92. To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.
Kelly Rowland
#93. 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
#94. If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty. They would never have a union because they couldn't afford to sacrifice a little bit more on top of their misery.
Cesar Chavez
#95. The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
Arnold Bennett
#96. People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same chances. They saw a system that demanded of them sacrifices with nothing but promises for the future.
Stefan Heym
#97. Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past... It's gone! Learn from it and move on...
Assegid Habtewold
#98. There are a lot of comedic actors who are just out to be the funny one and get all the laughs and they'll sacrifice your joke, the scene, the story just to be the star. All they want is attention and to be number one. You can spot those guys from a mile away and they're the worst.
Jake M. Johnson
#99. Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
John White Geary
#100. Age gave her the peace, at least, to live inside that moment like a poet - to not sacrifice the beauty to the anxiety of What Next, but to just observe.
Shannon Hale
