Sacrifice Quotes

If Everything’s a Rush, Nothing Is

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Seek the Blame, Give Away the Fame

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Macromanage, Not Micromanage

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Overoptimism Is More Dangerous Than Overpessimism

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority

~ Miles Anthony Smith

You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.

~ Ayn Rand

In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and afford the dead of war two minutes' silence. Afterwards, they speak golden platitudes about the struggle and the heroism of that time. Yet the words they speak are meaningless because they have surrendered the values my generation built after the horrors of the Second World War.

~ Harry Leslie Smith

I’m evolving, is the thing; I’m a god becoming a constellation.’‘The constellations are mostly demigods,’ I point out. ‘And they didn’t get to be constellations until after they died.’He laughs at that, and says, ‘Death is a small sacrifice to become immortal.

~ Neal Shusterman

The character of those who continually persevere and sacrifice are eventually completely reborn and when they rise from the darkness they've endured no stone can hold them down. -Rise...Roll Away The Stone

~ Jason Versey

Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

All true love and all sacrifice arein their essence Nature’s contradiction of the primary egoism andits separative error; it is her attempt to turn from a necessary firstfragmentation towards a recovered oneness. All unity betweencreatures is in its essence a self-finding, a fusion with that fromwhich we have separated, a discovery of one’s self in others.But it is only a divine love and unity that can possess in the light what the human forms of these things seek for inthe darkness.

~ Sri Aurobindo

The service [Jesus] gave to humanity was given even when we least merited that sacrifice. There is a joy in service that transcends emotional temporariness.

~ Ravi Zacharias

The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life.

~ Thomas Drummond

She resembled the swallow in the fable who once every thousand years transferred a grain of wheat, in the hope of rearing a mountain to reach the moon. Such persons are raised up in every age; they obstinately insist on transporting their grains of wheat and they derive a certain exhilaration from the sneers of the bystanders. “How queerly they dress!” we cry. “How queerly they dress!

~ Thornton Wilder

Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the Age of Intellect is the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve the problems of the world. Even on the low level of practical affairs this is patently untrue. Any small human activity, the local bowls club or the ladies’ luncheon club, requires for its survival a measure of self-sacrifice and service on the part of the members. In a wider national sphere, the survival of the nation depends basically on the loyalty and self‑sacrifice of the citizens. The impression that the situation can be saved by mental cleverness, without unselfishness or human self-dedication, can only lead to collapse.

~ John Bagot Glubb

Dream × Vision × Time(sacrifices) × Work(persistence) = SuccessIf you miss any of them, remember any sum/number multiplied by zero is = 0Like·Comment·Share

~ Unarine Ramaru

Without sacrifice, true love is incomprehensible.

~ Toba Beta

Olaf was a genius. This, she realized, watching the snowman struggle, was love. Olaf had been willing to put himself in danger because he didn't want to see her get hurt. Love wasn't the canned romantic declarations. That was nothing but fluff. That was what Hans had thrown at her and what she had mistaken for love. Pure, true love was what Olaf was showing her right now - sacrifice.

~ Elizabeth Rudnick

It took me a couple of months to realize I was in love with her. Well, probably not to realize it. More like to admit it. And when I did, I knew that was why I had chosen to stay away from her. I love her enough to want her to be happy and safe and successful, and all that other shit. I want her to have everything she wants in life. - Nash

~ M. Leighton

Love without sacrifice is like theft

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

~ Criss Jami

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

~ Mitch Albom

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

~ Veronica Roth

Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no, it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand'ring bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be t

~ William Shakespeare

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.

~ Richelle Mead

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

~ Anonymous

The Quiet WorldIn an effort to get people to lookinto each other’s eyes more,and also to appease the mutes,the government has decidedto allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day.When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup.I am adjusting well to the new way.Late at night, I call my long distance l

~ Jeffrey Mcdaniel

Тhere isnʹt much I wouldnʹt do for you. Тhe stupider, the better.

~ Richelle Mead

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

~ Mark Lawrence

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted. Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: She never asked me.

~ Edith Wharton

...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?

~ Kyung-Sook Shin

Do you see, Harry? Do you see the flaw in my brilliant plan now? I had fallen into the trap I had foreseen, that I had told myself I could avoid, that I must avoid.”“I don’t —”“I cared about you too much,” said Dumbledore simply. “I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.“Is there a defense? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have — and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined — not to want to save you more pain than you had already suffered. What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, and well, and happy? I never dreamed that I would have such a person on my hands.

~ J.k. Rowling

But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself.

~ Richelle Mead

Blood fills my mouth. Fire sears my veins. I choke back a howl. The silver knife slips--thechoice is mine.I am death or life. I am salvation or destruction. Angel or demon.I am grace.I plunge in the knife.This is my sacrifice--I am the monster.

~ Bree Despain

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves.Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

~ Henrik Ibsen

I’d rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again,” he says, “than watch them destroy you because of me.

~ Sangu Mandanna

When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn’t really feel like a sacrifice.

~ Kiera Cass