Sacrifice Quotes

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Theodore Parker

In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.

Helen Rowland

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Sidney Howard

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.-Lukas Jessen-Petersen

Paulo Coelho

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity.

Voltaire

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.

John Osborne

The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

Theodore Roosevelt

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

David Lloyd George

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

George Santayana

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Max Beerbohm

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Bernadette Devlin

The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.

Elder Cloward

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

Ernest Renan

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Ernest Renan

The pig and the chicken were on their way to breakfast, trying to decide what to have. When chicken said, Let's have ham and eggs. The pig then replied, That's fine for you, it's a small donation on your part, but it's a total sacrifice for me.

Source Unknown

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?

William Butler Yeats

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

Christopher Hitchens

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher