The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.

　　- Charles Dickens

　　The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.

　　- Mohandas K. Gandhi

　　Love is more than a noun -- it is a verb; it is more than a feeling -- it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.

　　- William Arthur Ward

　　Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

　　- Martin Luther King, Jr.

　　When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

　　- Joseph Campbell

　　And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

　　- Howard Zinn

　　Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often