Sacrifice Quotes

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice, it's an investment.

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.

We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature

Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior.

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

Sacrifices are not in vain. At the end, everything will pay off.

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.

Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it”

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

To win Olympic gold it takes a lot of HARDWORK, a lot of PASSION, a lot of SACRIFICES.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material.

The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

Only be with somebody if they make you feel like the best version of yourself. You can't sacrifice yourself for anybody, you know?

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.

I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support

The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

Being sociable is a sacrifice, as I see it. I really don't like to be, but it is necessary and worth it.

If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Our only concern should be to keep the fight [for souls] aggressive and to win victory regardless of cost or sacrifice.

I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.

I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice.

An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.