Quotes about sacrifice

She said that it is the responsibility of the living to justify the sacrifices of the dead. Otherwise their deaths have no meaning.

She was willing to give her life for her country. She wasn’t willing to throw it away.

Martyrdom was easier to contemplate in the abstract than to embrace in the flesh.

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

Sacrifice for sacrifice’s sake does no one any good!

“Our religion is based upon eschewing human sacrifice in favor of lives that are fulfilling, productive, and joyful.”

Startled, Ellin cried, “Human sacrifice! I am surprised you can think of such a thing!”

D’Jevier said with unfeigned weariness, “My dear young woman, our history is made up of millennia of human sacrifice. Well into the twenty-first century, huge armies of young men were sacrificed to tribal or national honor, women were sacrificed to male supremacy, children were sacrificed to brutality, all immolated in flames of painful duty. We try to determine whether the dutiful will suffer and to decide how that suffering may be compensated. We continually redesign our society to provide joy to those who incur pain on our behalf.”

It was better to imagine a sacrifice being for something.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation.

'A beggar cannot renounce wealth,' Master would say. 'If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!'

Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.

Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross.

“It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more successful than ourselves”

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to somebody else.