Quotes About Sacrifice

There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Xena, I'll always love you, but I know I have to let you go.

I'd confused need with love and love with sacrifice.

Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you'' ''It was your blade I needed'' Tyrion said, ''not your love.

People who love each other don't bargain. Love has no such thing as business. Love has no conditions, because love does not obey time and space.

Love which economizes is never true love.

Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

He'd wanted all of me and that's what I'd given him. Did it mean I had nothing left? "No," he muttered, voice thick with passion. "You have me, and I love you.

Love what you do and do what you love, even if it means living in a van and screaming at God every night.

Having a baby is definitely a labor of love.

No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of

When you walk in love, you give up your right to be right.

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

Our love is our burden.

when you love someone you'll do just about anything to keep them.

I think the reason that very few people really fall in love with anyone is that they're not willing to pay the price.

If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.

Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really care—only when it suits him.