Sacrifice Sayings & Quotes
These sacrifice sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. - Arthur Schopenhauer
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him. - Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you are and live without belief, that's more terrible than dying. - Joan of Arc
In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. - George F. Will
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. - Sir James Matthew Barrie
Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us. - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. - Charles De Gaulle
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an un-pitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense quality of life. - George Bernard Shaw
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook, it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. - Aldous Huxley
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk