Sacrifice Quotes
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Conservation of one resource may entail the sacrifice of another resource which others want to conserve. (Quote by - Herfindahl)
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization! (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. (Quote by - Jerome,Jr)
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. (Quote by - Sir Max Beerbohm)
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him. (Quote by - Ernest Renan)
Only a life lived for others is worth living. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Self-sacrifice is never entirely unselfish, for the giver never fails to receive. (Quote by - Dolores E. Mcguire)
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. (Quote by - Charlie Finley)
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it. (Quote by - Elder Cloward)
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. (Quote by - Bernadette Devlin)
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. (Quote by - Pope, Alexander)
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. (Quote by - Burke)
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. (Quote by - John Burroughs)
One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. (Quote by - Sidney Howard)
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. (Quote by - John Foster Dulles)
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace. (Quote by - Clark H. Minor)
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (Quote by - Bible)
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. (Quote by - Charles DuBois)
By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others. (Quote by - Lloyd George)
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice. (Quote by - Stevens, Wallace)
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. (Quote by - King James)
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
The rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind, and only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free. (Quote by - Rockefeller, John Davison,Jr)
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. (Quote by - Margaret Deland)
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men. (Quote by - Amy Lowell)
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts. (Quote by - Arthur Rimbaud)
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (Quote by - Bible (NewTestament))
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. (Quote by - Albert Pike)
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself (Quote by - William Ellery)