Quotes about Sacrifice

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

Friends, comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all! I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.

And when we did come out [of prison], my children said, "We thought we had a father and one day he'd come back. But to our dismay, our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.

They reminded us that the freedom struggle was not merely a question of making speeches, holding meetings, passing resolutions, and sending deputations, but of meticulous organization, militant action, and, above all, the willingness to suffer and sacrifice.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have

Drowning people sometimes die fighting their rescuers.

The Messiah has to fall as low as possible, otherwise he isn't the Messiah.

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.

Stranger, tell the Spartans that we behaved as they would wish us to, and are buried here.

Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.