10 Memorable Quotes on Sacrificing to Reach a Goal

10 Memorable Quotes on Sacrificing to Reach a Goal

Yesterday I wrote that achieving goals through sacrifice was the best approach for goals with binary success or failure outcomes. I believe this because sacrifice is intrinsic, measurable, and 100% within your control.

Today I am following up with the 10 most memorable quotes to remind you of the virtue of sacrificing to reach a goal.

10 Memorable Quotes on Sacrificing to Reach a Goal

1. I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

2.  If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice – Unknown

3. The most important decision about your goals is not what you’re willing to do to achieve them, but what you are willing to give up. – Dave Ramsey

4. What you’re willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love
– Jada Pinkett Smith

5. Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy.- Mahatma Gandhi

7. Success is a simple measurement of the commitment, sacrifice and pain one endures to achieve a dream. – Unknown

8. If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done. – Unknown

9. Sacrifice is giving up something that matters for something that matters more – Unknown

10. Sacrifice is necessary, that means both doing more and doing less – Jordan Burroughs

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