103 Sacrifices Quotes to Inspire and Encourage You

Achieving success often involves making sacrifices such as dedicating extra time to work or reducing distractions like media consumption.

These tough choices and decisions are essential for overcoming challenges and realizing long-term goals.

Sacrifice is a universal concept not just limited to careers but applicable to various life aspects including love.

It involves giving up something valuable like time or comfort for a greater cause.

This could range from soldiers sacrificing for their country to personal sacrifices for loved ones.

103 Sacrifices Quotes to Inspire and Encourage You

To explore different views on sacrifice, this compilation of 103 quotes offers diverse insights into this practice.


Sacrifices Quotes to Inspire

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. ~ Edward G.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ~ Michael Novak

They never fail who die in a great cause. ~ Lord Byron.

Love doesn’t please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others. ~ Kerrelyn Sparks.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn’t come with some sort of balance or sacrifice. ~ Simon Sinek

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~ Sidney Howard

I look at the sacrifice Belle made for her father and ask myself Would I be able to do the same? ~ Bethel Grove

There is no success without sacrifice. ~ Tonic Motihala.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else. ~ Tim Hetherington.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country. ~ James Otis.

Marriage is one long sacrifice. ~ Edith Wharton.

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Sacrifices Quotes on Success

Sacrifice, compromise, adjust, or surrender. Do whatever it needs to be done to make your health a priority. ~ Sarvesh Jain.

Price ain’t merely about numbers. It’s a satisfying sacrifice. ~ Toba Beta

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice. ~ Kris Vallotton

Judge your successes by the sacrifices made to achieve them. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice. ~ Beyonce Knowles

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. ~ Nadine Gordimer.

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I’ll be damned if I’ll let you sacrifice me! ~ Georgette Heyer

The speed of your success is limited only by your dedication and what you’re willing to sacrifice ~ Nathan W. Morris.

Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice. ~ Josephine Hart.

There is no greater sacrifice than the Lord Jesus Christ dying to save humankind from sin. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita.

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy. ~ Mahatma Gandhi.

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. ~ James Allen.

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Sacrifices Quotes and Sayings

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you don’t ~ Ayn Rand.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. ~ Pele.

Love is not possible without sacrifice, and sacrifice is not possible without love. ~ Karen Kingsbury

I have heard your heart and I am proud on how much you are willing to make the sacrifice. ~ Unknown.

When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn’t really feel like a sacrifice. ~ Kiera Cass

A successful life is not an easy life. It is built on strong qualities, sacrifice, endeavor, loyalty and integrity. ~ Grant D. Searchfield

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after. ~ Adoniram Judson.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sacrifices lose meaning without consequences. ~ Drew Hayes

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak. ~ Mark Lawrence

Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace. ~ Toba Beta

Success necessitates sacrifice. ~ Habeeb Akande

If we succeed without sacrifice, it’s because someone sacrificed for us. ~ Denis Waitley

Love without sacrifice is like theft ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Famous Sacrifices Quotes

One person’s sacrifice makes millions wake up from their sleep of indifference. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Gentleness, self-sacrifice, and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. ~ Mahatma Gandhi.

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish. ~ Abdu’l-Bahá.

Love, yes. But sometimes love must sacrifice itself in order to remain love. ~ Iris Murdoch

Lust is about satisfaction. Love is about sacrificing, serving, surrendering, sharing, supporting, and even suffering for others. Most love songs are actually lust songs. ~ Rick Warren.

Love doesn’t please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others. ~ Kerrelyn Sparks

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ~ Lauren Oliver, ‘Delirium’.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. ~ Napoleon Hill.

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ~ Lauren Oliver.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. ~ Abdul Kalam

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. ~ Ayn Rand.

Best Sacrifices Quotes

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. ~ Thomas Merton.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. ~ Max Beerbohm.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice. ~ Sadhu Vaswani.

It isn’t sacrifice if you love what you’re doing. ~ Mia Hamm

You sacrificed both of us once to bring me back to life, but what sort of a life is this without you. ~ Graham Greene

Today’s sacrifice is tomorrow’s civilization. ~ Abhijit Naskar

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. ~ Steve Prefontaine

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. ~ Charles Du Bos.

The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. ~ Gaylord Nelson.

success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice ~ Ken Poirot

Without sacrifice, true love is incomprehensible. ~ Toba Beta

Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. ~ Mitch Albom

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success? ~ Larry Flynt

At the end of the day, we all want to win, so everybody has to sacrifice when you want to be a part of something special. ~ Jayson Tatum.

Great lovers have made great sacrifices. ~ Louis Auchincloss.

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

We will sacrifice the fun and freedom of today for the glory of tomorrow. ~ Emmanuel Apetsi.

Quotes on Sacrifices

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. ~ James M. Barrie

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. ~ John Selden.

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views. ~ Mahatma Gandhi.

But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. ~ Joan of Arc.

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. ~ J.M. Barrie

You can’t sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful. ~ Eric Thomas

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

The good life is to be earned with hard work and sacrifice. ~ Unknown.

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice. ~ Sheryl Sandberg

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. ~ Ben Stein

Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone. ~ Zayn Malik.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. ~ Steve Prefontaine.

The most sublime act is to set another before you. ~ William Blake.

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist. ~ Marcel Proust

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else. ~ Mitch Albom, ‘The Five People You Meet In Heaven’.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else. ~ Mitch Albom.

Quotes on Sacrifices

Things aren’t gifted to you. Things don’t just come from an idea, from nothing. You have to work for them. You have to pursue them. You have to take time. You have to sacrifice. ~ Ozuna

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. ~ Mia Hamm

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. ~ Gary Hamel.

I understood now what it meant to sacrifice everything, to give your life to protect not only the ones you loved, but their world and what they cared for, as well. ~ Julie Kagawa.

There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice. ~ Idowu Koyenikan.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ~ Edmund Burke.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. ~ George Bernard Shaw.

In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds meaning, such as the meaning of sacrifice. ~ Victor Frankl.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. ~ Maya Angelou.

Sacrificing the happiness you feel is necessary and so you do in order to see others happy too. ~ Unknown.

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist. ~ Marcel Proust.

One person’s sacrifice makes millions wake up from their sleep of indifference. ~ Abhijit Naskar.

At the end of the day, we all want to win, so everybody has to sacrifice when you want to be a part of something special. ~ Jayson Tatum.

Life is more than burnt sacrifice. ~ Lady Creole.

To sacrifice our principles on the altar of greed is to be fooled into believing that that’s the only thing that we sacrificed. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. ~ Joseph Campbell.

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams. ~ Donovan Bailey.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood. ~ Lloyd Alexander.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space. ~ Chuck Palahniuk.


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