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He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
-James Allen
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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
-Georges Bataille
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
-Max Beerbohm
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
-Olympia Brown
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
-John Burroughs
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The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
-Elder Cloward
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
-Margaret Deland
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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
-Bernadette Devlin
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Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
-James A. Froude
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The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
-David Lloyd George
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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
-Johann von Goethe
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
-Nadine Gordimer
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
-Napoleon Hill
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The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
-Eric Hoffer
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One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
-Sidney Howard
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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
-Leigh Hunt
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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
-Aldous Huxley
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If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president s.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
-Paul Klee
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Books about Sacrifice
