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Quotes About Sacrifice

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.
~ Matt Smith
It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
~ Mother Teresa
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
~ Unknown
I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
~ Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.
~ Eric Hoffer
Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.
~ Holbrook Jackson
My whole desire is to burn myself away.
~ Hafiz of Shiraz
If you desire ease, forsake learning.
~ Nagarjuna
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
~ George Lucas
When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?
~ Joan Bauer, Peeled
Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.
~ David Jeremiah
If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.
~ Unknown
What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.
~ David Hewson, Macbeth
Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
~ A. J. Jacobs
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
~ Marilyn Manson
Hopefully, young people will see that you can be young and make the sacrifices to follow your dreams.
~ Tinie Tempah
Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.
~ Unknown
You guard your hopes and pocket your dreams, you'd trade it all to avoid an unpleasant scene.
~ Billy Squier
"Those who give up dreams, do injury to their own hearts and cannot possibly enjoy a profound sense of fulfillment in the end.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.
~ Michael Grant
You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.
~ Gabriel Campisi
If you want to follow your dreams, you have to say no to all the alternatives.
~ Oliver $