Sacrifice Quotes

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. (Germaine Greer)
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. View quote
Richard Bach
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. View quote
Steve Prefontaine
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it. View quote
Edward Snowden
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men. View quote
Savielly Tartakower
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. View quote
Emil Cioran
I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad...until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people. View quote
Mohammed Omar
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? View quote
William Butler Yeats
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. View quote
Bruce Fairchild Barton
Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne. (Steven Erikson)
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. View quote
Abdul Kalam
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion. View quote
William Hazlitt
Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. View quote
Ayn Rand
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. View quote
Edmund Burke
Love, when it is ours, is the other name for self-abnegation and sacrifice. When it belongs to people across the airshaft it means arrogance and self-conceit. View quote
O. Henry
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. View quote
Thomas Merton
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. View quote
Aeschylus
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. View quote
Franz Liszt
I sacrifice to no god save myself And to my belly, greatest of deities. View quote
Euripides
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut