Sacrifice Quotes

The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.

~ Diane Ackerman

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

~ John M. Mchugh

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

~ Jalal Talabani

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

~ Napoleon Hill

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

~ Enzo Ferrari

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

~ Simon Sinek

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

~ James Otis

I hope to play until I'm, like, 38 or something, and that's a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family's part.

~ Stephen Curry

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

~ James Mcavoy

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

~ Jennifer Granholm

Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.

~ Bob Latta

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.

~ John Buford

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

~ Franz Liszt

The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

~ Louis Sullivan

Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

~ Bjarke Ingels

If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough.

~ Jud Wilhite

The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.

~ Grover Norquist

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

~ Tim Hetherington

When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put in, and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them.

~ Al Sharpton

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

~ Larry Flynt

The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.

~ Patti Smith

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.

~ Michio Kaku

I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

~ Philip Zimbardo

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

~ Dennis Weaver

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

~ Charlie Dent

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

~ Nelson Mandela

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

~ Germaine Greer

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh