Sacrifice Quotes

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

George Bernard Shaw

We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entreched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

Orson Scott Card

Seven Deadly SinsWealth without workPleasure without conscienceScience without humanityKnowledge without characterPolitics without principleCommerce without moralityWorship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Paul Klee

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

Johann von Goethe

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

Mahatma Gandhi

I did not say anything. I was always embarresed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothin was done with the meat except to buy it.

Ernest Hemingway

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Margaret Deland

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Walt Whitman

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Henri Frederic Amiel

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

James Allen

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Albert Schweitzer

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ihr gebt nur wenig, wenn ihr von eurem Besitz gebt. - Erst wenn ihr von euch selber gebt, gebt ihr wahrhaft.

Kahlil Gibran

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Napoleon Hill

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Nadine Gordimer

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Aldous Huxley