Quotes about Sacrifice
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
— Mother Teresa
I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
— Mother Teresa
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
— St. Therese of Lisieux