Quotes About Sacrifice

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

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

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

Every great thing requires a great sacrifice.

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.

I know that great gifts come at a price, and that not all talent inspires admiration.

I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running America.

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

If permanent happiness comes with someone, Id leave everything.

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist)

It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.