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Quotes About Sacrifice

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.
~ Robert Breault
Of all the gifts You have offered to God, Your happiness-gift He treasures most.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
~ Ellen Glasgow
And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone
~ Mitch Albom
In fact there are beautiful people in this world doing incredibly selfless acts over and over and over. Dedicating their lives completely for the welfare and happiness of others.
~ Tenzin Palmo
Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.
~ Mason Cooley
The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
~ George Bernard Shaw
They are fighting for the chair while I am fighting for your happiness.
~ Narendra Modi
Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
~ Robert Harris
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.
~ Samuel Johnson
it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.
~ Mary Karr
It's worth burning myself out like a matchso long as others receive the light and warmth I dispatch.
~ Shannon Perry
Short term gain will result in long term pain
~ Umair Aziz Attari
The path to misery is paved by the tears of those trying to make others happy.
~ Steve Maraboli
There is no great path to greatness than true service. He who knows how to serve from a true heart and spirit knows what it takes to be truly great
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness?
~ Lenon Honor
Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less.
~ Joe Hill, The Fireman
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
~ Mark Twain
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry. Liebig's advice to Kekulé.
~ Justus von Liebig
We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.
~ David Platt
Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.
~ Philemon
It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
~ Horace
If you really serious 'bout helpin' somebody, crawl down in the ditch with 'em, bandage up their wounds, and stick with 'em until they is strong enough to crawl up on your back and get out
~ Denver Moore