Sacrifice Quotes

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.

To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

What are you doing this weekend to improve your financial situation? Sacrifice made today goes a long way for a better tomorrow.

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation.

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves

For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social progress and fighting injustice.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.

I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.

Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.

The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.

Whoever is not able to sacrifice, has no talent for love.

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down.

Does veganism require a “sacrifice”? Yes. It requires that you give up that which you never had any right to in the first place.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come.

Dream big, sacrifice all, and you will enjoy victory.

It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all...What a brutal job!

War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.

Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.