Sayings about Sacrifices
The saint is suspicious of too many sacrifices. ~ Brazilian Proverbs
Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty. ~ Traditional Proverb
There is no god like one’s stomach; we must sacrifice to it every day. ~ Beninese Proverb
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. ~ Chinese Proverb
Sometimes you need to sacrifice your beard in order to save your head. ~ Iraqi Proverbs
A man will sacrifice his head to conquer a heart. ~ Turkish Proverbs
When pleasure interferes with business, give up business. ~ American Proverbs
Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength. ~ Japanese Proverbs
There’s no glory without sacrifice. ~ Filipino Proverbs
Quotations about Sacrifices
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. ~ Charlie Finley
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. ~ Joseph Campbell
Sacrifice to God, not man.~ Emperor Cladudiusi
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. ~ Ernest Renan
The greatest of all sacrifices is the sacrifice of time. ~ Antiphon
It is easier to sacrifice great than little things. ~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. ~ Helen Rowland
He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. ~ James Allen
The law of self-sacrifice is the law of self-preservation. ~ Ellen Gould White
There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. ~ Aldous Huxley
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. ~ Voltaire
Without sacrifice, true love is incomprehensible. ~ Toba Beta
We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. ~ Albert Schweitzer
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. ~ George Santayana
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. ~ James A. Froude
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. ~ Cesare Pavese
You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice. ~ Kris Vallotton
I believe that every sacrifice we make will so enrich us in the future that our regret will be that we did not enrich the sacrifice the more. ~ George F. Burba
The men and women who have the right ideals… are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. ~ Gaylord Nelson
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace. ~ Clark H. Minor
A sacrifice should be willingly offered; God doth not accept an offering made through compulsion of another. ~ Theodoric
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
There is probably no more moral activity than the self-sacrifice involved in donating one’s blood. ~ Richard F. Schubert
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. ~ Paul Klee
Figure out what your purpose is in life, what you really and truly want to do with your time and your life then be willing to sacrifice everything and then some to achieve it. If you are not willing to make the sacrifice, then keep searching. ~ Quintina Ragnacci
The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become. ~ Charles Dickens
You cannot win without sacrifice.~ Charles Buxton
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else. ~ Mitch Albom
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. ~ Napoleon Hill
No one can make sacrifice for another, without establishing a new bond of interest between them. ~ Elon Foster
When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least. ~ Louisa May Alcott
Faith is best realized in sacrifice. ~ Madam Swetchine
The true sacrifice is the sacrifice of the breath for the higher gnosis of recognizing one’s identity with the absolute. ~ Gavin Flood
You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. ~ J. M. Barrie
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ~ Katharine Hepburn
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. ~ Olympia Brown
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them. ~ E. H. Chapin
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It’s a spiritual dissipation. ~ Margaret Deland
The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.~ Elder Cloward
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. When may it suffice? ~ William Butler Yeats
There is just one virtue — the eternal sacrifice of self. ~ George Sand
Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. ~ Ayn Rand
Upon such sacrifices the gods themselves throw incense. ~ William Shakespeare
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him. ~ Ernest Renan
Love is more than a noun — it is a verb; it is more than a feeling — it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. ~ William Arthur Ward
What you most repent of is a lasting sacrifice made under an impulse of good-nature. The goodness goes; the sacrifice sticks. ~ Charles Buxton
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.~ George Bernard Shaw
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.~ Henri Frederic Amiel
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. ~ Max Beerbohm
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
Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak. ~ Mark Lawrence
Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
In gratitude for your own good fortune you must render in return some sacrifice of your life for another life. ~ Albert Schweitzer
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. ~ Nadine Gordimer
Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things. ~ Georges Bataille
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.~ Amy Lowell
Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
The whole point of sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place…. People are doing it around you all the time. ~ John Osborn
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another — too often ending in the loss of both. ~ Tryon Edwards
Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. ~ Mitch Albom