Sacrifice Quotes

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles DuBois

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

Self-sacrifice is never entirely unselfish, for the giver never fails to receive.

Dolores E. Mcguire

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice--no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself

William Ellery

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Eric Hoffer

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts.

Arthur Rimbaud

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

Idi Amin Dada

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Richard Bach

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

James Baldwin

Having done these things, they made the sacrifices prescribed by custom lest they be found lacking in filial piety.

Henry Beard

The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war, but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.

Wendell Berry