My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.
The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.
An individualist is a man who says: ‘I will not run anyone’s life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself.’
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.
Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
True love requires sacrifice.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.
The cause of most of man’s unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.