If your choices require you to sacrifice the things that matter most to you, regardless of the potential rewards, you will ultimately feel unfulfilled. If your sacrifices don’t threaten what’s most important to you—or at least not beyond the short-term—then they’re far more likely to feel worth it.

Sacrifice, a religious rite in which an object is offered to a divinity in order to establish, maintain, or restore a right relationship of a human being to the sacred order. It is a complex phenomenon that has been found in the earliest known forms of worship and in all parts of the world.

: the act of giving up something that you want to keep especially in order to get or do something else or to help someone. : an act of killing a person or animal in a religious ceremony as an offering to please a god. : a person or animal that is killed in a sacrifice.

You might call such a person “steadfast,” “relentless,” “unyielding,” or even “cutthroat.” Ayn Rand would call such a person “objectivist.” If you’re referring to a brave willingness to make sacrifices with the hope that it doesn’t come to that, you might call that person a “risk-taker.” – Billy Jul 7 ’18 at 23:22.

altruistic Add to list Share. Someone who is altruistic always puts others first. This word comes from the Old French altruistic and means “other people” and before that the Latin alter, which means “other.” Our current word comes from the nineteenth century and comes from philosophy.

If someone can’t be satisfied, she is insatiable.

They have realistic expectations of others. Satisfied people spend less time judging why things don’t work out and spend more time being grateful for the rare times when they do. Self-aware, they recognize their own limitations, which helps them also accept that everyone else is less than perfect, too.