Sacrifice, at its heart, is an offering — transforming effort into meaning, and self into service. As John Lennon confessed, “We gave up everything just to sit at your table.” ✨

“No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice is ‘making sacred.’ He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“I swear—by my life and my love for it—that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” ~ Ayn Rand

“It’s a great sacrifice to do what I’m doing. I’m not having fun at all… What a brutal job!” ~ Silvio Berlusconi

“To get what you want, right on the heels of deciding what that is, you must also decide what you will do in exchange for the results you desire.” ~ James R. Ball

“You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.” ~ Francisco Franco

“It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.” ~ Eric Hoffer

“Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing—don’t live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don’t get stuck inside your own ego; it will become a prison in no time flat.” ~ Barbara Ward

“How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!” ~ Eric Hoffer

“I could do without many things with no hardship—you are not one of them.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

“I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing.” ~ Joan of Arc

“When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It’s an extremely powerful weapon.” ~ César Chávez

“How many things I can do without!” ~ Socrates

“Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.” ~ Rudyard Kipling, The Islanders