Sacrifice quotes

Discover the profound power of sacrifice with our collection of inspiring quotes. Reflect on the selflessness and transformative acts that shape lives in the Sacrifice category.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

- Emile M. Cioran

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

- Ross Perot

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

- Zack de la Rocha

Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

- Morgan Freeman

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 Will

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

- Herbie Mann

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

- Napoleon Hill

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

- Henry Taylor

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

- Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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

- Jalal Talabani

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

- Pope John Paul II

They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice.

- Robert A. Brady

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

- George Bernard Shaw

We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.

- Susan Collins

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

- Germaine Greer

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

- Lasse Hallstrom

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

- Brandi Chastain

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

- Auberon Herbert

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

- Henry A. Wallace

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.

- Wilhelm Steinitz

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

- John B. Hood

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

- Muriel Rukeyser

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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

- Mia Hamm

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

- Stanislaw Lec

We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.

- Saddam Hussein

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

- Matthew Simpson