Sacrifice Quotes

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.

Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

It's really hard. And it's harder today because of the salary cap. It starts in September at training camp - getting every guy on the same page, being as mentally and physically as focused as you can be. Then in April and May, you basically spend eight weeks practising, watching video and playing games. That's your life.

She is your treasure, she must have a husband;I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

No Victory Without Suffering

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.

To give one's heart is to give all.

If we are mark'd to die, we are enowTo do our country loss; and if to live,The fewer men, the greater share of honour.God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational principles if someone comes up with a solution that will really solve the problem.

We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.

What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on earth irrespective of the consequences.

If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

I took a long period off to be a mom.

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.

Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.

I gave you the best of me.

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.