Quotes about Sacrifice

“Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.”

“They never fail who die in a great cause.”

“There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.”

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

“Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”