Top 100 Sacrifice Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”

— William Penn

52. “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

53. “Come back with your shield – or on it.”

— Plutarch

54. “There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”

— Nelson Mandela

55. “Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.”

— Bill Belichick

56. “Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.”

— Corrie ten Boom

57. “The cause of most of man’s unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

58. “The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.”

— Timothy Keller

59. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

— Nathan Hale

60. “Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

61. “Everything comes at a price. Everything in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?”

— Paullina Simons

62. “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

— Thomas Paine

63. “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”

— John the Baptist

64. “Teach us to give and not to count the cost.”

— Ignatius of Loyola

65. “If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.”

— Pope John Paul II

66. “There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine.”

— Mikhail Tal

67. “I don’t wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul.”

— TobyMac

68. “Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.”

— Robin S. Sharma

69. “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

70. “You sacrifice the few to save the many.”

— Joel Osteen

71. “What are you doing this weekend to improve your financial situation? Sacrifices made today go a long way for a better tomorrow.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

72. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

— Napoleon Hill

73. “Small sacrifices must be made.”

— Otto Lilienthal

74. “True love requires sacrifice.”

— Francis Chan

75. “An individualist is a man who says: ‘I will not run anyone’s life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself.’”

— Ayn Rand

76. “My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.”

— Nikola Tesla

77. “Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.”

— Lance Armstrong

78. “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

79. “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

80. “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.”

— Howard Zinn

81. “People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

82. “In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

83. “You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.”

— Shakira

84. “Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.”

— Vince Lombardi

85. “Doing less is not being lazy. Don’t give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.”

— Tim Ferriss

86. “Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.”

— Ayn Rand

87. “Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

88. “If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

89. “When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.”

— Ayn Rand

90. “Truth is, no two people are completely compatible. We have to learn to become one. That means we may have to make sacrifices; we may have to overlook some things. We must be willing to compromise for the good of the relationship.”

— Joel Osteen

91. “Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

92. “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

93. “Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”

— Jim Rohn

94. “The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.”

— Ayn Rand

95. “If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.”

— Ron Paul

96. “Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

97. “For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.”

— Aldous Huxley

98. “The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”

— David Foster Wallace

99. “It’s no laughing matter being a Republican in these perilous times. Anyone can be a Republican when the stock market is up, but when stocks are selling for no more than they’re worth, I tell you, being a Republican – it’s a sacrifice.”

— Will Rogers

100. “If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.”

— Anonymous