Sacrifice Quotes

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers...

There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and...

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, y...

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of li...

But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrif...

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men,Now far from h...

If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by...

... to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

Don't hate me forever, Arty," whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that.

Artemis looked at Holly and felt a tremendous affection for her... he could properly appreciate how ...

How could you...? How?""Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your l

Wait," said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "Wha...

I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and th...

When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never h...

I refuse to dedicate my life to posterity. Surely one owes as much to the current generation as to o...

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective o...

Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she ...

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

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud ...

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not i...

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet ar...

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray...

How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity...

If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things t...

The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make...

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example,...

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

If there’s no sacrifice, there’s no love.

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no...

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no ...

Anon from the castle wallsThe crescent banner falls,And the crowd beholds instead,Like a portent in ...

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a wo...

A painless lesson is one without any meaning, one who does not sacrifice anything cannot achieve any...

He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplici...

Do you see, Harry? Do you see the flaw in my brilliant plan now? I had fallen into the trap I had fo...

He has led us in here against our fears, but he will lead us out again, at whatever cost to himself.

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It...

Give up your heart and you lose your wayTrusting another to feel that way.Give up your heart and you...

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estat...

Perfect crime,' he said softly. 'Yes?' 'Persuade an innocent, idealistic young girl that the future ...

Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as...

We are as the dead," Sha said. "Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And...

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bri...

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get somethin...

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ...

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

All salvation is temporary, . . . I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an ...

And now without redemption all mankindMust have been lost, adjudged to death and hellBy doom severe,...

The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would b...

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the sam...

The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would b...

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the sam...

The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would b...

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the sam...

The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would b...

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the sam...

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrif...

What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has po...

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himse...

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

This is neither the time nor the place, however, to ponder how often the soul, in order to be able t...

…the worshipers here are not likely to kill one another, they all offer the same sacrifice, and how ...

The motto above the lintel of the main entrance was in the raised script of the prayer language: My ...

And for the first time, I pity her, because when she says love, I think she really means it. For her...

I recall the passage in the letter to the Hebrews in which we are reminded that Christ has already d...

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. 

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a ki...

Sacrifice: That's what makes our mosaic so beautiful and rich.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantmen...

That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had l...

That had day changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had l...

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grac...

The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master...

Rose: A real sacrifice is giving up something you want or enjoy very much, isn't it?Alec: Yes.Rose: ...

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including ...

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality...

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires...

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my sit...

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will...

Nothing worthwhile is gained without sacrifice.

You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.

Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has ...

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

People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even fi...

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their childr...

There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and...

In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all ...

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her wo...