Quotes on sacrifice

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”

Criss Jami

“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

“There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”

Cassandra Clare

“The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.”

Emil Cioran

“Could a being create the fifty billion galaxieseach with two hundred billion starsthen rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?”

Ron Patterson

“Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace.”

Toba Beta

“Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.”

Michael Bassey Johnson

What is love, in this world? It is a feeling that makes one vow to live and die for it.

Jin Yong

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

True love is when you’re willing to sacrifice everything for that one person.

Abbi Glines

What is to give light must endure burning.

Aeschylus

When I think about it, I don’t care if I hurt as long as I’m with you.

Ai Yazawa

True love is sacrificial, it gives without asking for anything in return.

Aimee Semple McPherson

The highest road is to be found in love, and it can be reached only by those who would sacrifice everything for the beloved.

Alan Paton

When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.

Alexander the Great

Acéphale is both a symbol of death and renewal—a sacrifice of form for transcendence.

Georges Bataille

Occasionally, I could see agony in her eyes, the shadows that flickered in the background. If I could, I’d take her pain and make it my own.

T.J. Forrester

Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.

John Lewis

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

John Lewis

Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another, selfishness demands we put ourselves first at their expense.

Stephen Kendrick

Love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another.

Stephen Kendrick

Nobody knows you as well as your spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants to meet your spouse’s needs.

Stephen Kendrick

I made sacrifices so that I’m around and not traveling for that [to be with my daughter].

Teri Hatcher

Yes, it's funny, isn't it? You try to do what's best for the people you love, and you just end up in trouble for your efforts.

Kirsten Miller

True love is not just a feeling; it is a choice to serve and sacrifice for another.

Julie Klassen