Sacrificing Quotes

“Women can invest a tremendous amount of care and devotion into others, but by becoming sometimes dependent on being needed, they simultaneously become self-destructive. By their self-imposed dependence on being considered necessary, they deny their own freedom and agency, sacrificing their individuality and autonomy. (" Sweet Smell of Submission")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see ‘leading’ and ‘serving’ as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for the assumption of 'entitlement.' And once that happens, I will forfeit the reality of the former which will destroy the assumption of the latter. And in what terribly dark place will that now leave me?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Cassian's arm shook, and Nesta braced herself for the blow, showing him her forgiveness, her unending, unbreakable love for him-

But Cassian roared.

And then the knife twisted in his hand, angling not toward her, but toward his own heart.

Of his own free will.

Against the Crown's hold, against a gasping Briallyn, he chose to drive the knife into his own heart. Kill, she had said. But had not specified who.

And as the sun broke over the horizon, as Cassian's knife plunged for his chest, Nesta erupted with the force of the Cauldron.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“I agree. I don't understand how a guy everyone is terrified of makes me feel safe. I don't understand how a guy who stayed behind to protect me when he didn't know me has been shot. I don't understand how a guy who carried me out of an alley full of shattered glass is the enemy everyone is warning me about.”
― Katie McGarry, Walk the Edge

“If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The true test of a father’s legacy is that it rests in every life except his own, for to leave a true legacy we must divest ourselves of everything so that the investment in our families can be everything.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“An idea without sacrifice, regardless of grand it might be, will never be anything more than an idea.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Love is a choice to reach beyond myself not once, but twice. First, I reach out to God to grant me the love that I don’t possess, and then I reach out to others to give them that love. And to be a conduit of this sort is to take love beyond the thin romantic notions of men and set it ablaze within me so that it might consume the world around me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I'm willing to take the brunt of it, if it means the others will at least stand with us against him.'

I clenched the tufted arms of the chair.

'You shouldn't have to.'

'It might be the only choice.'

'I don't accept that as an option.'

He blinked at me. 'Prythian might need me as an option.' Because with that power of his... He'd take on the king and his entire army. Burn himself out until he was-

'I need you. As an option. In my future.'

Silence. And even with the sun warming my feet, a terrible cold spread through me.

His throat bobbed. 'If it means giving you a future, then I'm willing to do-'

'You will do no such thing.' I panted through my bared teeth, leaning forward in my chair.

Rhys only watched me, eyes shadowed. 'How can you ask me not to give everything I have to ensure that you, that my family and people, survive?'

'You've given enough.'

'Not enough. Not yet.'

It was hard to breathe, to see past the burning in my eyes. 'Why? Where does this come from, Rhys?'

For once, he didn't answer.

And there was something brittle enough in his expression, some long unhealed wound that glimmered there, that I sighed, rubbed my face, and then said. 'Just- work with me. With all of us. Together. This isn't your burden alone.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In the act of selfishness, you bind demerit karma and in the act of sacrificing your own self-interest for the sake of others [selflessness], you bind merit karma. Nevertheless, they are both karma, aren’t they? The fruit of merit karma is shackles of gold and fruit of demerit karma is shackles of iron but they are both indeed shackles, aren’t they?”
― Dada Bhagwan

“The size of my life is not determined by how much I have, but how much I’ve chosen not to have.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Before you think that you are making great sacrifices on something, look at what sacrifices are making others on the same issues!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“To sacrifice is to do for others what we need done for ourselves. But the greatest sacrifice of all is to know that in doing this for someone else, we have now forfeited this thing ever being done for us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I know Jimmy believes that the company’s evaluations are meaningless. Mildred appears naïve. Employees are always surprised when they’re let go and they have no idea who to turn to. They’ve heard of Jimmy. He exists in some mythical employment realm, like the Yeti; and he’s as popular, with management, as Oscar Schindler once was with ex-Nazis. I tell Mildred that Jimmy will get back to her. For Mildred, it’s a long wait. I hang up, leaving her to the lonely world of the recently fired.”
― Gary J. Floyd, Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020

“Put yourself first and in no time you will be dead last.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Self-care’ always translates to ‘other-care’ unless I’m so selfish that I ‘don’t care’. And if that’s the case, then neither matter.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you have a hole within you, trying filling the hole in someone else. If you do, in the end there will be two less holes.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Leading like a superhero means going that extra, grueling mile for the sake of others. It's being able to demonstrate superhuman endurance, empathy, and selflessness.”
― Sebastien Richard, Lead Like a Superhero: What Pop Culture Icons Can Teach Us About Impactful Leadership

“The degree of my commitment to a cause will not be in direct proportion to the degree that ‘I am willing’ to sacrifice for it. Rather, it will be in direct proportion to the degree that ‘I am sacrificing’ for it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The mark of a hero is that they run into harm’s way for a singular agenda which no other lesser agenda is given room to contaminate. And that agenda is the preservation of the life of another, even if the choice of running into harm’s way means that they themselves will not be able to run out of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sacrifice today, so that others have a better tomorrow.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose