Sacrifice Quotes

People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

True love is sacrifice. It is in giving, not in getting; in losing, not in gaining; in realizing, not in possessing, that we love!

~ J.p. Vaswani

The way I see Jesus has not changed much at all since I was a child, but my imprisonment and all that followed made me love Him even more. His being the Son of God makes sense to me, because I believe God to be loving, just, forgiving, and merciful. I also believe that He respects free will. After all, He has given it to us so that we can choose to love or hate Him, do good or evil. But is it fair for a loving God to sit on His throne in Heaven and let us struggle and suffer on our own? Would any good father abandon His children this way? It makes perfect sense to me that God decided to come among us, live like us, and die a horribly painful death after being tortured. This is a God I can love with all my heart. A God who sets an example. A God who has bled and whose heart has been broken. This is who Jesus is to me. I don't pretend that I understand the Holy Trinity. But I understand love and sacrifice. I understand faithfulness.

~ Marina Nemat

Achan gritted his teeth and recalled Sir Eagan's words. Love was not taking because you wanted, he'd said. Love was sacrifice.

~ Jill Williamson

He remembered the darkness and despair she'd suffered during her long years as a prisoner, but he also recalled the deep, unquenchable joy she took from the world around her; and he knew that given the choice, Wilamena would suffer all she had and more rather than sacrifice one day of being alive.It was just as his father had said. She chose life, all of it.

~ John J. Stephens

France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.

~ Victor Hugo

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

~ Laurie Lee

It’s not easy to be God.

~ Péter Zilahy

I can't - is sacrificing your potential...

~ Gino Norris

Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom

~ Jocelyn Murray

You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

~ Jessica Fortunato

Stained-glass windows glowed faintly in the moonlight streaming through, illuminating the sculpture of Christ on the cross that hung above the altar. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Then the sculpture seemed to move, and Christ’s body twisted on the cross to look directly at him. ...Jesus, the son of God and his saviour, seemed be smiling at him.

~ Phillip W. Simpson

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

~ Andy Stanley

If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that precise familial structure, will the social conservatives please (for once!) concede that this arrangement has always put a disproportionately cumbersome burden on women? Such a system demands that mothers become selfless to the point of near invisibility in order to construct these exemplary encironments for their families. And might those same social conservatives – instead of just praising mothers as “sacred” and “noble” – be willing to someday join a larger conversation about how we might work together as a society to construct a world where healthy children can be raised and healthy families can prosper without women have to scrape bare the walls of their own souls to do so?

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Perfect crime,' he said softly. 'Yes?' 'Persuade an innocent, idealistic young girl that the future of the human race depends on her sacrificing her own life. She will come into hospital as trustingly as a lamb to the slaughter. She will welcome the implantation of a baby that will kill her. She'll lie there while her brain is destroyed for nine whole months, and no police will arrest you, no court will judge you, you'll get away scot free. At the end of nine months she'll be taken off life support and she'll be completely dead. And no one will be blamed.

~ Jane Rogers

Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.

~ Jennifer Paynter

Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy

~ Paul Bourget

Artemis looked at Holly and felt a tremendous affection for her... he could properly appreciate how fierce and beautiful his best friend was...She is truly magical, thought Artemis. Perhaps her qualities are more obvious to me now that I have decided to sacrifice myself.

~ Eoin Colfer

How could you...? How?Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your l

~ Eoin Colfer

In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love?

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Right now he was nothing but a physically hurt man who had been through hell and back, clinging to his promise. “We be... together. More than just... few... hours. Wanna die... with you. Not... alone.” Fought to stay awake, needed to spend every second with Vadim while he could.Vadim kissed that hand again, looked up. “We won’t die. We'll never die. I promise. He’d promise anything, meant it, would die defending this man, would live and die and suffer for him.

~ Aleksandr Voinov

Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything...away.

~ Dave Matthes

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

~ Joseph De Maistre

The pain we feel in separation is the price we pay for love.

~ Hatef Mokhtar

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.

~ Ayn Rand

...no one has ever doubted you would die for those you love ... the question then becomes would you live?

~ Elizabeth Isaacs

Cry no tears for us, my friend.” I pry at her fingers, panicking to be released in fear that she may drag me into death with her. She croaks again, “Lend no aches to the dreams of yesterday.” From the corpse of Warren, his greyish gums smack from whatever goo has settled in his mouth, “Allow the tide sweep free the bay.” Then together they sing in zombie choir, “And home the ships sailing send.

~ Nathan Reese Maher

Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase.

~ Orrin Woodward

That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.

~ Lois Lowry

[Connor, prepared to sacrifice himself to save Sarah]God, I pray, give me the strength to live the next hour well.

~ Pamela Clare

I stopped paying the price for success and started enjoying the price for success.

~ Orrin Woodward

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

~ Ayn Rand

Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious

~ Ayn Rand

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity.

~ Voltaire

If your portfolio is made up of the investments that you have made in the lives of people, you will have amassed a wealth so vast that all the portfolios that will ever float the trading floor on Wall Street would, by comparison, be reckoned as nothing. And if by chance we dared to live by this truth, we would in fact love like none other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.

~ Bible

Then out spake brave Horatius The captain of the gate: To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?

~ Macaulay