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Quotes about Sacrifice

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
— St. John Chrysostom
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
— Tertullian
The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.
— Samuel Johnson
You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
— Anonymous
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
— James Faust
Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.
— Ted Dekker
Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.
— Joyce Meyer
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
— Abraham Lincoln
Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson