logo

Quotes About Sacrifice

If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
~ Helen Rowland
A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?
~ Dalton Trumbo
It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.
~ Mariama Bâ
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
~ Ayn Rand
Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.
~ Robert Penn Warren
A married man with a family will do anything for money.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.
~ Edward Everett
The secret of the Christian's passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.
~ David Jeremiah
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.
~ Chester A. Arthur
All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
~ Oswald Chambers
I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.
~ George Carlin
A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.
~ Henning von Tresckow
Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.
~ Dave Ramsey
A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.
~ John le Carre
Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.
~ Julius Caesar
I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind.
~ Hicham El Guerrouj
The Egyptians would sacrifice red-headed men on the tomb of Osiris because red was the colour associated with Set, the Egyptian version of Satan.
~ David Icke
There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.
~ Shirin Ebadi
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
~ Charles Dickens