Sacrifice Quotes

The cost you will pay to achieve the goal is worthwhile.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family’s had to suffer for that, that I haven’t done commercial jobs just to bring home the bacon.

~ Josh Alan Friedman

A shadow passes over her face, but she shakes it off fast as she leans forward, her bright-blue hair swinging over her shoulder and clashing with her pumpkin-orange shirt. “You think you’re the only one who wants to bring back someone they love? Everyone loses someone. It’s inevitable. Everyone thinks they’re willing to give up everything to get that person back. There aren’t many who are actually capable of it.”My breath catches in my throat as my brain processes her words. Nowhere in that speech did she say what I wanted was impossible. She just said most people aren’t willing to make the necessary sacrifice.“I’ll do it. Anything. Whatever it takes.

~ Erica Cameron

My god, they're everywhere.

~ Kellie Thacker

My dad used to say, ‘This is what your right arm’s for, son,’” John said. “This is the time and these are the people and I’d give my right arm to be a light, a comfort, to them. I know you would, too. In whatever form it takes. Use these materials and make something great. Do it on faith, knowing you probably won’t be around to see how the story ends.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

You were twisting your wet hair up into a ponytail, and then you saw us, and you smiled....Then why didn't you-Because you were smiling for him. And I would have had to have been an idiot to get in between that.

~ Mandy Hubbard

There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

People love super heroes.  It's true we're  impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn.  But the fact is, villains possess these same qualities.  So why our admiration for the hero and not the nemesis?  Because of virtue.   A super hero gives everything to defend what's good and right without seeking praise or reward.  Think about it.  All the great heroes give without taking, help without grumbling, sacrifice without asking recompense.  A super hero's real strength, what we absolutely fall in love with, is his finer virtue.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Every sacred moment is made that way by sacrifice.

~ Lance Conrad

You can only achieve GREATNESS when you pursue the things others are not willing to SACRIFICE for.

~ Oscar Bimpong

While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You said it was a sacrifice. Coming from me, it's a gift.

~ Becky Allen

Christmas is a bold act of emboldening sacrifice and the most selfless gift ever granted the rebellious lot that we are.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.

~ N.d. Wilson

My existence is the only gift I have left to give, but it will have to do.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest of his body.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and they are stern laws. They have schooled us to scorn the life of leisure, which this rich land of ours would bestow upon us if we wished, and instead to enroll ourselves in the academy of discipline and sacrifice. Guided by these laws, our fathers for twenty generations have breathed the blessed air of freedom and have paid the bill in full when it was presented. We, their sons, can do no less.

~ Steven Pressfield

Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the tether of our slavery? Then we can enjoy ourselves and frolic in a more spacious arena and die without having come to the end of the tether. Is that, then, what we call liberty?

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

You love the word love but you don’t really love and you don’t want to love because love, which is really sacrifice, would prevent you from doing what you want to do.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I remembered suddenly that Aspen had always been this way. He sacrificed sleep for me, he risked getting caught out after curfew for me, he scrounged together pennies for me. Aspen's generosity was harder to see because it wasn't as grand as Maxon's, but the heart behind what he gave was so much bigger.

~ Kiera Cass

I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.

~ Sol Luckman

I have yet to understand the ritual of sacrifice in monotheism; to a supposed Creator who has supposedly given us what we will be eventually sacrificing.If I take a small mirror and reflect sunlight back to the sun, am I sacrificing to the sun?

~ Haroutioun Bochnakian

Selfless Actions; expand our life outside of us, enable us admired leaders and make our actions that live beyond our lifespan.

~ Ahmet Adam Asar

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.

~ Christiaan Huygens

When we are asked to show our love for God, our desire for him, when he asks us as Jesus asked Peter, 'Lovest thou me?' we have to give proof of it. 'Lovest thou me more than these, more than any human companionship, more than any human love?' It is not filth and ugliness, drugs and drink and perversion he is asking us to prefer him to. He is asking us to prefer him to all beauty and loveliness. To all other love. He is giving us a chance to prove our faith, our hope, our charity. It is as hard and painful as Abraham's ordeal, when he thought he was asked to perform a human sacrifice and immolate his son.

~ Dorothy Day

If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one under your Yule tree.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

This was our rhythm, our worship: give and take, gift and receive, honor and entrust. Making love to this man wasn’t just an expression of my feelings for him or a carnal, physical need—it was an offering.

~ Rachael Wade

Being others-focused instead of self-focused changes your worldview. Living in a selfless manner and seeking to help others enriches our very existence on a daily basis. Get your hands dirty once in a while by serving in a capacity that is lower than your position or station in life. This keeps you tethered to the real world and grounded to reality, which should make it harder to be prideful and forget where you came from.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

If you can’t handle others’ disapproval, then leadership isn’t for you.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

We all have something to offer, and we must choose to focus on what we do have to offer, not what we don’t. And remember the dirty little secret is that those who are acting like they have it all together really don’t.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Build Icebergs, Not Skyscrapers

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Adversity Isn’t to Be Avoided

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Be Chris LeDoux, Not Garth Brooks

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Selfish Apologies Aren’t Apologies at All

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Show Us, Don’t Tell Us

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Be a Strong Leader, Even If You Follow a Weak Leader

~ Miles Anthony Smith

You Either Trust Someone or You Don’t

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Abdication Isn’t Empowerment

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Finish Well, Anyone Can Start Well

~ Miles Anthony Smith