Sacrifice Quotes
Michael Bassey Johnson
Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.
2064 Lauren Oliver
I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
2142 David Foster Wallace
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
3987 Zayn Malik
Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.
3051 William Shakespeare
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."
(Sonnet 116)
2359 Rick Warren
The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.
1200 Mahatma Gandhi
Seven Deadly Sins
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.
2454 Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't be decieved by your mortality, you're just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either created or would be destroyed.
1539 Anthony Liccione
Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.
1023 Charlotte Eriksson
And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.
2054 Rick Riordan
A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly.
3352 Donovan Bailey
Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams
2714 Kyung-sook Shin
All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people.
4011 Simona Panova
My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.
3968 Meredith T. Taylor
What a short time I had been given to experience love. I felt as my life had only recently begun and now it would surely end at sunrise.
3738 Gaylord Nelson
The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
4272 Michael Bassey Johnson
There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices.
3991 George Eliot
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
2300 Jude Morgan
I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.
4051 Jessica Fortunato
I thought I saw my entire future once, every moment of it, until the day of my death. I spent it in her arms. Then after twenty years, she left.
4064 Jared Brock
Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering - God indwells us - and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.
3593 Simona Panova
The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions.
3844 Paulo Coelho
But how will I know who my Soulmate is?” Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life.
By taking risks’ she said to Brida. ‘ By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in you search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.
3867 Martin Luther King Jr.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?
2311 Mitch Albom
Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
4356 Shauna Niequist
It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
4433 Sam Childers
Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen.
1219 Martin Luther King Jr.
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation - either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
3791 Peter S. Beagle
Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
4112 Thomas Merton
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
2121 Toba Beta
Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace.
4546 Jostein Gaarder
He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience-and the truth- higher than life.
3557 John Updike
There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.
2220 Nathan Reese Maher
All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.
2009 Thomm Quackenbush
Ashlei was free to spout off how much she loved her savior because Jesus was not about to rear back and tell her He did not quite feel the same way, that He had died for the sins of the world just because it was fun and did not want things to be too serious. He was only thirty-three, after all, and might want to martyr himself for other people.
2177 Tana French
My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.
2690 Eoin Colfer
Wait," said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "What is your plan, Artemis?"
All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.
1542 Michael Bassey Johnson
Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it.
2318 Walt Whitman
poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you
4804 Richard Adams
There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.
3007 Erin Bow
Taggle looked up at her, his amber eyes as deep as the loneliness Kate had felt before he became her friend.
"The traditional thing," he said slowly, "involves the river and a sack.
3524 Rachel A. Marks
The men stop coming after Hunt goes missing. We learned from the last brave soul to visit that they whispered all sorts of stories to answer his disappearance. My favorite is that we ate him. We cooked him up with our whore-earned corn, a dozen rats’ eyes, and a bat wing.
Even I couldn’t have thought of anything more perfect.
3932 D'Andre Lampkin
People of God are always people who care about other people and it always comes at some cost.
3803 Elizabeth George
Jesus teaches us to give richly, serve sacrificially, and love unconditionally.
1841 John Piper
Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.
3350 Bauvard
I didn’t sacrifice everything for love, just my mother when love required a caesarian.
2001 Suzanne Venker
If the ultimate goal is lasting love, women are going to have to become comfortable with sacrifice and capitulation. Because those are the underpinnings of a long-term marriage – for both sexes.
3007 Joseph Smith Jr.
Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.
1881 Sandra Rodriguez Barron
This is the one who will find us. He's the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He's the explorer. El curioso.
3458 Elizabeth George
True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring.
4348 Jim George
Serving others means being willing to make sacrifices for their good.
3177 E.L. Montes
You didn't judge my past. That's when I knew I couldn't turn away from you even if I tried...
1926 E.L. Montes
The morning I drove by and saw you alone, staring at the house. I told myself to keep on driving, but something told me to stop. And when I'd seen how lost and confused you were, something told me I was meant to be there....
I was meant to be there so I could help you find your way
2284 E.L. Montes
Depression is evil. Before you know it, it takes over and there's no escaping it.
2208 Edward Abbey
I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
1739 J.R.R. Tolkien
We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.
4857 Joseph Joubert
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
1776 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.
1861 Solange Nicole
It’s a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.
4157 Ken Poirot
success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice
3482 Ferly Arvidia
Kesuksesan ada karena sebuah perjuangan yang besar. Dengan begitu kau butuh pengorbanan yang besar pula.
4452 Michael Bassey Johnson
Every turning point in a person's life isn't reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected of them to do, they do not show trepidation about the requirements needed to be on top
2478 Sherman Morris
How much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve the level of success you desire?
2164 Unarine Ramaru
Dream × Vision × Time(sacrifices) × Work(persistence) = Success
If you miss any of them, remember any sum/number multiplied by zero is = 0
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2520 Vishwas Chavan
Sacrifice has great value in that it not only achieves personal success but builds successful communities, nations and humanity. Each moment spent in selfless sacrifice makes you a stronger person, and such strength fosters the required determination to cope with adversity and hardship for the sake of others.
1544 Mitch Albom
As usual, he saves his wife's for last. He leans on the cane and he looks at the headstone and he thinks about many things. Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.
4481 Sanhita Baruah
What can you do for love?
Can you leave a person for love?
Can you leave a country for love?
I think I wouldn't even leave my couch for love
1147 Nutan Bajracharya
Whenever I use to think of others, I had to sacrifice myself...., Its called life in earth where you had to think a lot to do or not to do, the things you like or dislike.....
4199 Paulo Freire
P29 - the oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.
4408 Pierce Brown
The Golds have everything, yet they demand sacrifices even from their own. This place is sick. This empire broken. It eats its kings, its queens, as hungrily as it does the paupers who mill its earth.
1443 Rosemary Sutcliff
The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no man-" and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone else.
4952 Elizabeth George
Your attitude of serving the Lord can transform even the most menial of tasks into a magnificent sacrifice of love.
3851 Alisa Hope Wagner
God's glory in our lives has little to do with our sacrifice and everything to do with our surrender.
4180 Alisa Hope Wagner
God's love grounds me while His mystery confounds me. He is a personal yet all-powerful; in me yet around me; creates me yet dies for me.
4619 William Branks
Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is what pleases the Lord.
4800 Stephen Moles
The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.
2613 Rachael Wade
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.
2002 Nathan Reese Maher
Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost
memories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow and yesterday, since dreams
play when time is askew? Are we not all adrift in the constant sea of trial and when all is done, do we not all yearn for ships to carry us home?
1183 Nathan Reese Maher
Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.
2647 Nathan Reese Maher
I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?”
She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?
1163 Nathan Reese Maher
There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach
in a hangman’s noose. It is this same lack in noise that lives, there! in the
darkness of the grave, how it frightens me beyond all things.
3297 Nathan Reese Maher
History doesn’t start with a tall building
and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone is taking
us for suckers and is playing a mean game.
2642 Nathan Reese Maher
She leaves my side and heads deeper into
the apartment singing, “ - if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a
copper for those they ask, a diamond for those who stay.
1006 Nathan Reese Maher
That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right
mind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going to fly in my Model-A1’.
People would much rather say, ‘Get in my whirly-gig’. And that’s what you
should name it.
1797 Nathan Reese Maher
I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help but hear a muffled sigh as she decapitates her latest creation with a single push of her hand.
2518 Jill Williamson
Achan gritted his teeth and recalled Sir Eagan's words. Love was not taking because you wanted, he'd said. Love was sacrifice.
1409 Elizabeth George
It's one thing to have a goal, but it's quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it.
1401 Melissa De La Cruz
If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.
1180 Laura Frantz
I've been thinking of something your father said - that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom - fighting for liberty. But I believe 'tis the same for love as war.
2801 Courtney Allison Moulton
There are four things you need to know about war. One, every action requires careful tactics. Two, never lose hope and fight only for what is right. Three, be brave but you don't have to be fearless. And four, be willing to sacrifice.
4051 Christopher Hitchens
Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.
1236 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
3278 PureDragonWolf
No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider
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