Top 100 Sacrifice Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

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2. “True success requires sacrifice.”

— Rick Riordan

3. “The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It’s not easy. But absolutely worth it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Motivational Quotes for Work

4. “There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.”

— James Allen

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Achievement Quotes, Determination Quotes

5. “Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.”

— Ellen G. White

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Grace Quotes, Salvation Quotes, Love Is Quotes

6. “Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Service Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

7. “Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Effort Quotes, Growth Quotes

8. “If you’re not where you are. If you’re not where you want to be. If you don’t have what you want, want to have. If you’re not where you think you should be at this particular place. It has nothing to do with the system, but it has everything to do with the fact that you’re not making the sacrifice.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Dedication Quotes

9. “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Struggle Quotes

10. “He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.”

— James Allen

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes

11. “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Fighting Quotes

12. “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”

— Thomas Paine

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Peace Quotes, Veteran's Day Quotes

13. “A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Service Quotes, Quotes About Giving, Suffering Quotes

14. “Life isn’t worth living until you have found something worth dying for.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Purpose Quotes

15. “They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”

— Laurence Binyon

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Loss Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Quotes About War

16. “I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Care Quotes, Service Quotes, Morality Quotes

17. “They alone live, who live for others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Service Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

18. “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Deep Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

19. “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”

— Jim Elliot

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Values Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Faith Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

20. “Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

— Charles Studd

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Scripture Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes

21. “The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Choices Quotes

22. “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Monday Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Greatness Quotes

23. “Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Wealth Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

24. “The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Care Quotes

25. “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”

— Paul the Apostle

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Quotes About Believing, Meaning of Life Quotes

26. “Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”

— Leonard Ravenhill

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Salvation Quotes

27. “Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Future Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Important Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

28. “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

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

29. “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

— John Bunyan

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Humble Quotes

30. “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

— John F. Kennedy

Also featured in: Commitment Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Government Quotes

31. “The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.”

— Francis Chan

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Discipleship Quotes, Love You Quotes

32. “No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.”

— C. S. Lewis

33. “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”

— Joseph Campbell

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Hero Quotes

34. “Love to be real, it must cost – it must hurt – it must empty us of self.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Love You Quotes

35. “And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

Also featured in: Fighting Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Hero Quotes

36. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Quotes About People

37. “Give, but give until it hurts.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Service Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Quotes About Giving

38. “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Fighting Quotes

39. “To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Change Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

40. “If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Morality Quotes, Salvation Quotes

41. “Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.”

— Alfred Tennyson

Also featured in: Warrior Quotes, Military Quotes, Duty Quotes, Hero Quotes

42. “Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Morality Quotes, Virtue Quotes, Soul Quotes

43. “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Victory Quotes, Quotes About War, History Quotes

44. “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Care Quotes, Being Happy Quotes, Uplifting Quotes

45. “Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Helping Quotes, Unconditional Love Quotes

46. “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Discipleship Quotes, Suffering Quotes

47. “The greatest rewards come when you give of yourself. It’s about bettering the lives of others, being part of something bigger than yourself, and making a positive difference.”

— Nick Vujicic

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Virtue Quotes

48. “Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Freedom Quotes

49. “If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”

— Charles Studd

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Sunday Morning Quotes, Service Quotes, Dedication Quotes

50. “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”

— Charles Dickens

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