Sacrifices Quotes

“There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“A competitive and insecure woman will tell you that “true love” is never giving up on someone you're in love with. A confident and spiritual woman knows that “moving on” doesn’t mean you never loved someone. She realizes that letting go is what God needs her to do because both your happiness and hers requires taking different journeys for spiritual growth. Letting go is sometimes the hardest thing, but it is the most “real love” you will ever experience.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Across the Great Barrier

“There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.”
― Cammie McGovern, Neighborhood Watch

“Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Sacrifices made for love are fine, unless the sacrifice is you.”
― Kellie Elmore

“Why did they have to sacrifice anything?”
“It was a symbol,” Grandmother explains. “Of an innocent dying on behalf of someone else—the greatest act of love. A choice to die so someone else doesn’t have to.”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

“It is unwise to let a man who isn't king sit on a throne for too long.”
― Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

“In the fall he picked up his phone one afternoon to hear Grandma Lynn.
'Jack,' my grandmother announced, 'I am thinking of coming to stay.'
My father was silent, but the line was riddled with his hesitation.
'I would like to make myself available to you and the children. I've been knocking around in this mausoleum long enough.'
'Lynn, we're just beginning to start over again,' he stammered. Still, he couldn't depend on Nate's mother to watch Buckley forever. Four months after my mother left, her temporary absence was beginning to take on the feel of permanence.
My grandmother insisted. I watched her resist the remaining slug of vodka in her glass. 'I will contain my drinking until'- she thought hard here- 'after five o'clock, and,' she said,' what the hell, I'll stop altogether if you should find it necessary.'
'Do you know what you're saying?'
My grandmother felt a clarity from her phone hand down to her pump-encased feet. 'Yes, I do. I think'
It was only after he got off the phone that he let himself wonder, Where will we PUT her?
It was obvious to everyone.

~pgs 213-214; Grandma Lynn and Jack;”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her.
The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.”
― Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path

“Ukitaka kujua maana halisi ya maisha yako kuwa tayari kufanya vitu vikubwa vitakavyohitaji nguvu ya Mungu kuvikamilisha – na kudumu katika maisha hayo kwa kafara ya maombi.”
― Enock Maregesi

“There are certain sacrifices that will never be repaid.”
― Natasha Lester, The Paris Secret

“You took me once
to an older part of earth
I'd never seen—
where monsters were born
and killed.
They sacrificed everything
and nothing
for a taste of this
life.”
― Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses

“Answer this for me. In order to protect something, your loved ones end up shedding blood. Is it worth it? Is it really the right thing to do? Is it necessary? Please. Answer me. (Sarasa)”
― Yumi Tamura, Basara, Vol. 10

“Sunset... it's the great sun offering all his light to the moon and the stars.
- John Henry P. Taguines”
― John Henry Taguines

“He said: Are you my sacrifice, sweet flesh? How pale and young you are. Tell me, are they resuming the sacrifices to the water once more? And when she didn't respond, the kelpie said, No gods can save you. I shall take you, little beauty, and you shall be my bride before you are my supper.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“The road to redemption is paved with sacrifices and second chances.”
― Sharyn McCrumb , The Ballad of Frankie Silver

“In making the life of another better, you will have done the same for yourself in ways that are frequently hidden by the sacrifices that were made for the betterment of that other.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Selflessness means lighting up the world of another with your last fire.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Do not hurt yourself to please others, and do not hurt others to please yourself. Let the love go in and out.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire

“The sacrifices you make for others, are not always reciprocated”
― Charmaine J Forde

“I think of Norman Morrison
the Buddhists of Saigon
the black teacher last week
who put himself to death
to waken guilt in hearts
too numb to get the message
in a world masculinity made
unfit for women or men”
― Adrienne Rich, Diving Into the Wreck

“During the rush hours the sidewalks were crowded with laborers and domestic workers, many of them well past middle age, trudging patiently to their jobs and home again, sometimes as much as twelve miles. They knew why they walked, and the knowledge was evident in the way they carried themselves. And as I watched them I knew that there is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“It certainly is painful to think about, to have given everything for love and lose everything in return.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 2

“You must understand that life's like a story, and like a story, there's but a single path through it. This path is marked by the sacrifices you make, the kind that can't be unmade. A man is his sacrifices. In the end, he's made of nothing else.”
― Adam Johnson, The Wayfinder

“My father, the Catholic,

worries about my soul, and this worry appears to me as a vision
in the form of an email

in my inbox, a quote from St. Thérèse, the little saint
of littleness.

Perhaps, he should be worried.

I pray to no saint, and my little sacrifice for the day is to go
to work and to refrain

from picking at the dry patch of skin on
the back of my scalp and smile and smile until
5 p.m.”
― Marianne Chan, All Heathens