Sacrifice is to give up something that is valuable to you in order to help another person. Inspirational sacrifice quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
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Most Famous Sacrifice Quotes
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else. – Mitch Albom
I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. – Lauren Oliver,Delirium
She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love… That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don’t have enough of their own. – Veronica Roth,Allegiant
Great success requires greater sacrifice. – Sachin Prabhu
Success takes sacrifice. – Anonymous
Success is a simple measurement of the commitment. sacrifice and pain one endures to achieve a dream. – The GymFather
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. – Shauna Niequist
Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met. – Stephen Kendrick
The most important decision about your goals is not what you’re willing to do to achieve them, but what you are willing to give up. – Dave Ramsey
Your success is determined by what you are willing to sacrifice for it. – Anonymous
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
People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important. – Chris Hemsworth
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own. – Honor de Balzac, Pere Goriot
The speed of your success is limited only by your dedication and what you’re willing to sacrifice. – Nathan W. Morris
The only question to ask yourself is how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve success? – Larry Flint
Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to youJodi Picoult,Handle with Care
Sometimes we have to step down to help somebody up, not because we failed to go up, but as a humble sacrifice to save a great soul. – Terry Mark
Sacrifice: If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done. – Anonymous
There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice. – Idowu Koyenikan
I’ve got a dream worth more than my sleep. – Anonymous
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. – Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you feel compelled to put others first at the expense of yourself, you are denying your own reality, your own identityDavid Stafford,Codependency: How to break free and live your own life
For I was sure of one thing, it wasn’t always the hero who saved the world. It was the person most willing to die first. – R.K. Ryals,Fist of the Furor
There is no success without sacrifice. – Tonic Motihala
Let the rest do whatever, while you do whatever it takes. – Grant Cardone
Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t. – Anonymous
Regardless of what the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can’t have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it’s a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that’s worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice. – Tana French
Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. – Mitch Albom,The Five People You Meet in Heaven
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him. – Ernest Renan
Nothing great was ever accomplished without making sacrifices. – Anonymous
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. – Steve Prefontaine
You can’t sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful. – Eric Thomas
One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. – Sidney Howard
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. – Henri Frederic Amiel
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pine
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. – Zahid Abas
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. – Pele
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. – Fight Club
There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. – Anonymous
I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we’ve given it away. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
To put others in front of ourselves is to put God in front of everything. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
All great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving. – Paullina Simons
Occasionally in this life, we must give up or lose the things that we want in order to gain the things we really need. – David Kreger
They warn you that you’re gonna have to make sacrifices, but i guess that means different things to different people, like giving up something you really want now for something you’ve wanted your whole life, or spending less time on yourself, so you can spend more time with someone you love. At some point you might even have to give up your own sense of safety and well being, but after a while it doesn’t feel like you’re giving up anything at allScrubs J.D
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. – Peter S. Beagle
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. – Napoleon Hill
Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep. – Eric Thomas
Don’t be afraid to give yourself everything you’ve ever wanted in life. – Anonymous
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. – Holy Bible
Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else. – Tim Hetherington
The most sublime act is to set another before you. – William Blake
The good life is to be earned with hard work and sacrifice. – Anonymous
Are you ready to sacrifice who you are, for what you will become. – Eric Thomas
Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime. – Annie Besant
Giving yourself is the ultimate revolution. – Bryant McGill,Voice of Reason
Mom’s eyes held yours for a moment. ‘I don’t like or dislike the kitchen. I cooked because I had to. I had to stay in the kitchen so you could all eat and go to school. How could you only do what you like? There are things you have to do whether you like it or not.’ Mom’s expression asked, What kind of question is that? And then she murmured, ‘If you only do what you like, who’s going to do what you don’t like? – Kyung-sook Shin
If people knew what they were missing, they would give up everything they have to achieve it. – Belsebuub
What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it’s dearness only that gives everthing its value. – Thomas Paine
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. – Bible
The important thing is this: To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could becomeMaharishi Mahesh Yogi
Sometimes in life, you do things you don’t want to. Sometimes you sacrifice, sometimes you compromise. Sometimes you let go and sometimes you fight. It’s all about deciding what’s worth losing and what’s worth keepingLindy Zart,Complete
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. – Henri Frederic Amiel
The Lord requires sacrifice, meaning something above and beyond the minimum. The Master spoke of the ‘second mile’ and told us to go there. Why Because he wants to bless us, and he put all the blessings in the second mile. – Hartman Rector, Jr. –
Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it. – A.J. Darkholme,Rise of the Morningstar
A wise man once said you can have anything in life, if you sacrifice everything else for it. What he meant is, nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle you better decide how much you’re willing to lose. – Bernajoy Vaal
Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals. – Lailah Gifty Akita
There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. And when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you. – Charles Dickens,A Tale of Two Cities
In order for you to receive, someone else has to give. That’s called sacrifice. – Todd Stocker,REFINED: Turning Pain into Purpose
Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature, that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
Sacrifice is the most beautiful situation and solution for all social problems. – Kartik Mehta
