Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won't die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn't have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn't want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream.
Steven Wright

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.
Aime Cesaire