The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
Thomas Francis Meagher

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
Pope John Paul II

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
John Osborne

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
Jeff Miller

The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.
Hugh Douglas

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.
Omar Bongo

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

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
Nadine Gordimer

There is no rank in sacrifice.
Josephus Daniels

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
Stefan Zweig

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.
Suzanne Farrell

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
Aldous Huxley

They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice.
Robert A. Brady

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
Victor Davis Hanson

This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.
Jim Walsh

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
John M. McHugh

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Hermann Hesse

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.
Brandi Chastain

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

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Emile M. Cioran