Sacrifice Quotes

Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.

Only if you sacrifice for a cause will you love it.

Keeping up with everything I do requires some sacrifices, but once and a while I need to take some time to myself.

Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.

Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.

...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.

The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.

where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.

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!

We'll organize workers in this movement as long as we're willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing.

Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time.

Jesus' blood was shed for us all; what remains is for us to accept His sacrifice in faith and obedience.

If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary.

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

Listen, son. You and I are professionals. If the manager says sacrifice, we lay down a bunt and let somebody else hit the homeruns.

Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

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.

No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.

We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.

My dad and my mom had to sacrifice so much, and had to teach us and show us the way of going about things, how to be humble, all those things. They helped us stay on track for what we wanted to do.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written in our heart. It is to have a soft, listening, responding heart to God.