Quotes about sacrifice

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

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

— Georges Bataille

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Sir Max Beerbohm

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

— Olympia Brown

They never fail who die in a great cause.

— Lord Byron

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

— Elder Cloward

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

— Bernadette Devlin

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

— Charlie Finley

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

— James A. Froude

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

— Nadine Gordimer

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

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

— Sidney Howard

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

— Aldous Huxley

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president s.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Paul Klee

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

— Amy Lowell

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

— Joseph De Maistre

No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.

— Clark H. Minor

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

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

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

— Helen Rowland

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

— Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

— George Santayana

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Albert Schweitzer

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. [Jhn 15:13]

— Bible

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

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

— William Butler Yeats

The universe is so vast and ageless that the life of one man can only be measured by the size of his sacrifice.

— Rosewarne V.A

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

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

— John Burroughs

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

— Margaret Deland

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Walt Whitman