53 Sacrifice Quotes That Resonate Deeply

The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle, and hardship. It’s not easy. But absolutely worth it.
- Robin S. Sharma

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

There's no shortcuts to winning. You have to be willing to pay the price and be willing to sacrifice.
- Tom Thibodeau

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
- Gordon B. Hinckley

In this world, it is not what we take up but what we give up that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
- Nikola Tesla

Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that's insufficient in your life.
- Greg Plitt

To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are for what you will become.
- Eric Thomas

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

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

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

For anything worth having, one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
- John Burroughs

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
- Jim Rohn

True success requires sacrifice.
- Rick Riordan

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

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
- Lou Holtz

We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.
- Apolo Ohno

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.
- Robert Greene

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

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

A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away.
- Helen Steiner Rice

It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
- Elisabeth Elliot

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

Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline. And respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.
- Candace Bushnell

If you wish to prove your ability to love, you must go on living and show that you can sacrifice every day, in the small things as well as the big.
- Melanie Cellier

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

Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.
- Alan Cohen

Most people thought the biggest sacrifice they could make was to die for something. They were wrong. The biggest sacrifice someone could make was to live for something—to allow it to consume you and turn you into a version of yourself you didn’t recognize.
- Ana Huang

Not all of us are called to die a martyr's death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.
- Richard Wurmbrand

Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
- Patrick Lencioni

Never let someone’s opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.
- Les Brown

His soul is as free as the clouds in the sky, but he is committed to his dream. On his freely chosen path, he often has to get up earlier than he would like, speak to people from whom he learns nothing, make certain sacrifices.
- Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

A noble mind finds its purest joy in the accomplishment of its duty, and to that willingly sacrifices its inclination.
- Johann David Wyss, The Swiss Family Robinson

It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
- Shauna Niequist

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
- John Ruskin

Happy is he who has the pure truth in him. He will regret no sacrifice that keeps it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing less than a living sacrifice is demanded. Not a loan, but a gift; not a compromise, but a sacrifice; not our poorest, but our best. Not a dead but a living offering. Each drop of our blood, each ounce of our energy, each throb of our heart, we must offer to God.
- Curtis C. Thomas

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.
- Cesar Chavez

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

Sacrifice is joy.
- Mahatma Gandhi

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

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
- Gordon B. Hinckley

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.
- James Allen

If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.
- Anonymous

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.
- Laura Hillenbrand

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
- Richard Bach

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
- Shakira

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
- Lionel Messi

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