Sacrifice Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Democracy, as I understand it, requires me to sacrifice myself for the masses, not to them. Who knows not that if you would save the people, you must often oppose them?

You have to be willing to work harder and sacrifice more than most to become one of the top fighters.

Maybe what I wanted was stupid. Maybe it wasn't even something I could have. But, still it was mine. I didn't think I could sacrifice my dreams, no matter how much my family meant to me.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

Every great thing requires a great sacrifice.

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.

When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least.

I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves.

If you want to win, you have to sacrifice and do what makes the team work most efficiently.

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.

Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want

Love is giving up your needs for the sake of someone else, in some other words its sacrifice

When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.

Everybody sacrifices something in an attempt to reach what they think society wants.

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own.

Jesus did not ask us to believe that his death was a blood sacrifice, that he was going to die for our sins.

The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .

When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.

We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

Authority is always built on service and sacrifice.

Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.

My diet is much better. I eat what I have to. The older you get, the better you get at making sacrifices.

It is a tremendous sacrifice to run for political office in America today.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.