Quotes About Sacrifice

Everything. But in a time of war "everything" seemed to take on a different hue, and keeping loved ones safe meant sacrifices had to be made. Men and women had died making that sacrifice in the hope that their children might live in a free world.

La forma di egoismo più intelligente è l'altruismo.

Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.

I would not have thought," he wrote to Mästlin, "that it could be so sweet, in union with my brothers, to suffer injury for religion, to abandon house, fields, friends, and nation. If real martyrdom is like this, to lay down one's life, our exultation is so much the greater, the greater the loss, and it is an easy matter to die for faith."23

In peace sons bury their fathers; in war fathers bury their sons.

You preserve nothing without encountering some disadvantages. If we keep this [prairie] dog town, horses will break their legs and rattlers will come back. But in the large picture, things balance out, as they did two thousand years ago. The trick is to preserve the balance and pay whatever price it costs.

The world is not pretty. It's only the hard work of some people that makes it so.

Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the most at that moment.

Self-seeking is self-destruction

The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.

Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows, is the

a man's worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts

Uncrown, and fill a servant's place.

would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. VISIONS

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set... Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object.

Before a man can achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must elevate his mind above slavish animal indulgence. He may not, so that it will prevail, surrender all animality and selfishness, by way of any way; but a portion of it should, as a minimum, be sacrificed.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.

Here is a rich man who is the victim of a painful and persistent disease as the result of gluttony. He is willing to give large sums of money to get rid of it, but he will not sacrifice his gluttonous desires. He wants to gratify his taste for rich and unnatural viands and have his health as well. Such a man is totally unfit to have health, because he has not yet learned the first principles of a healthy life.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. VISIONS

The great man has become such by the scrupulous and unselfish attention which he has given to small duties. He has become wise and powerful by sacrificing ambition and pride in the doing of those necessary things which evoke no applause and promise no reward. He never sought greatness; he sought faithfulness, unselfishness, integrity, truth; and in finding these in the common round of small tasks and duties he unconsciously ascended to the level of greatness.

Fair riches come to him who strives in ways of golden gain. And fame enshrines his name who works with genius-glowing brain; But greater glory waits for him who, in the bloodless strife 'Gainst self and wrong, adopts, in love, the sacrificial life;

He who each day accomplishes some victory over himself, who subdues and puts behind him some unkind thought, some impure desire, some tendency to sin, is everyday growing stronger, purer, and wiser, and every dawn finds him nearer to that final glory of Truth which each self-sacrificing act reveals in part.

Give up that narrow cramped self that seeks to render all things subservient to its own petty interests, and you will enter into the company of the angels, into the very heart and essence of universal Love.

people are very, very busy walking around you, paying with the currency of unhappiness now in order to reach their glorious futures someday…maybe.