28 Quotes About Sacrificing

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.

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.

Before you think that you are making great sacrifices on something, look at what sacrifices are making others on the same issues!

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.

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.

The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.

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.

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?

Put yourself first and in no time you will be dead last.