Quotes about sacrifice

As often as we do good, we sacrifice.

Benjamin Franklin

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy. I never paid such a price.

Nikola Tesla

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Florence Nightingale

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

Alexander the Great

Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.

Howard Schultz

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

Samuel Johnson

Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable.

Guy Kawasaki

I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in our quiet life.

Leo Tolstoy

The most difficult thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much easier to be selfish.

Pat Riley

Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.

Vince Lombardi