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Quotes About Sacrifice

The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?
~ Michael Moore
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Anyone can say the love someone....It's loving someone enough to let them go that will prove that love.
~ Jessica Jung
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I love you more than my own skin.
~ Frida Kahlo
For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.
~ Bruce Springsteen
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
~ Annie Dillard
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
~ Howard Zinn
Love is an act of faith.
~ Erich Fromm
Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are
~ Chris Burden
Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.
~ Agnes Macphail
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.
~ Robert Creeley
Love breaks your heart, love takes no less than everything. Love makes it hard, and it fades away so easily.
~ Vanessa L. Williams
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
~ Anton Chekhov
I love you baby goodnight. There goes my life
~ Kenny Chesney
If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.
~ Bob Dylan
Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.
~ Isabel Paterson
Love gives without taking
~ Erica Jong
When you're in a romantic relationship, of course, there is a lot more compromise and you have to be a lot more unselfish.
~ Olivia Wilde
I have only one heart to give and one mind to lose. May I someday find a woman who will take them both.
~ Michael W. Grimard
Out of the military, out of the war, out of the only life they knew. Team Fear took the fall.
~ Cindy Skaggs, Live By The Team