Sacrifice Quotes

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

~ Friedrich St. Florian

Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

~ Patti Smith

Veterans Day is an acknowledgment that those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country - and their families - deserve our admiration and respect today and every day.

~ Elizabeth Esty

I needed somebody to love me, and the people that I chose were my coaches. I would sacrifice my body to be successful for my coaches because I wanted them to love me, to respect me, to have positive feelings about me.

~ Steve Largent

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

~ James M. Barrie

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

~ Martin Luther King

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

~ Sam Ervin

If you truly want to find a meaningful relationship, you've got to find yourself first and learn to be confident in your own skin. Don't sacrifice anything about who you are to be with someone. That's setting yourself up for failure.

~ Whitney Wolfe

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.

~ Jillian Michaels

Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I've grown up with is tough but also very freeing.

~ Paul Walker

The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.

~ Chad Le Clos

If you have a dream, it's definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.

~ Carli Lloyd

We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

~ Apolo Ohno

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

~ Thor Heyerdahl

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

~ Jennifer Granholm

We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

~ Jennifer Granholm

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.

~ Lou Holtz

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

~ Florence Nightingale

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

~ José Martí

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

~ Mario Vargas Llosa

Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.

~ Mel Gibson

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

~ Hermann Hesse

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

~ Michael Novak

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

~ Jack Gleeson

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

~ Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

~ Slobodan Milosevic

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

~ Barack Obama

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

~ Steve Prefontaine

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that follow a religious narrative. We don't burn witches anymore. Most people would consider that barbaric. We don't sacrifice human beings, which was a religious act practiced by numerous cultures on this planet.

~ Greg Graffin

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

~ Leigh Hunt

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

~ Bill Gates

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

~ Aldous Huxley

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

~ Nick Lampson

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

~ Bob Riley

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

~ Edward Snowden

I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.

~ Joyce Banda

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz

After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control my weight without deprivation. I call my program 'Somersizing,' and Somersizing is not a diet. Diet is a nasty four-letter word that conjures up negative thoughts of sacrifice and obsession and guilt.

~ Suzanne Somers