Quotes About Sacrifice

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. –Bob Marley

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

To lay down one's life for the truth.

Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away.

I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

We must suffer in order to go to God. We forget this truth far too often.

One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.