Quotes About Sacrifice

Aber alle diese Opfer, welche der Verteidiger bringt, verursachen ihm meistens einen Ausfall an Kräften, die nur mittelbar, also später und nicht unmittelbar auf seine Streitkräfte wirkt, und oft so mittelbar, daß die Wirkung wenig fühlbar wird. Der Verteidiger sucht also sich auf Kosten der Zukunft im gegenwärtigen Augenblick zu verstärken, d.h. er borgt, wie jeder tun muß, der für seine Verhältnisse zu arm ist.

A male was transformed into a man by the willful expenditure of energy. Above all, a man willed himself to be expendable. Like the sun, a man fed the fire of his honor on his own substance. The magnus animus, the animus virilis, squandered itself in contempt of its own dear life.

When I love I can no longer do as I will. When I love I am love's prisoner; and love is tremendous in its demands.

This lack of liberty, or rather this slavery to fashion, is one of the idols which attracts a great number of Christians. How much money is sacrificed upon its altar!—without taking into account that so much good could otherwise be done with it. Being poor in spirit means, above all, being unrestrained by what is called fashion; it means freedom.

We have been marching for the last one hundred and fifty years. We sacrifice our individual liberties, and sometimes we fail and suffer. Sometimes we divide into separate groups and our methods conflict, though we all aim at one common goal. The significant thing is that we march on without turning back. What we want is peace not violence, We know that we thrive and prosper only in peace.

you are the one for him/her and the price you pick based on the value you are providing will be absolutely secondary to the core benefits you will provide.

But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

I know you think your publishing work is incredibly important, but it's really not significant in the grand scheme of things. Nothing is more important than having children. There's absolutely nothing that a parent shouldn't be willing to sacrifice for their sake." She wiped a tear away from her eye. "Even if you have to give up your own life.

Antigone by Sophocles.

Nobody else gets all of me. Only you." He brushed my hair off of my cheek. "I only expect one thing in exchange." I raised my eyebrows. "What would that be?" "All of you.

He waited. Everything he was—everything he cared about—was tied up in this woman. He'd give her the moon if that's what she wanted.

I offered my life for a decadent democracy," pronounced the Reverend L. Francis Griffin, a black man who had served in the Jim Crow military during World War II and

Loyalty never put blood back in a man's veins.

The world goes on, little Seri," he said. "A soldier never dies. His blood makes the grass green for his children.

One goes, or we all die

You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.

trench graves

Captain Werner Von Bachelle of the 6th Wisconsin in General John Gibbon's Iron Brigade, who died on the Hagerstown Pike with his Newfoundland dog at his side, rests here as well.

His grave a nation's heart shall be, His monument a people free!

If you knew what I went through to get into your home, that I messed up my back trying to know you, inside and out, you'd judge me for it.

I imagine pushing you into the red abyss and jumping in after you, with you, so we can burn together, forever, a tree of life, light, sex.

You see Elliot in Hannah scam his way to be near his sister-in-law and you call that romantic but if you knew what I went through to get into your home, that I messed up my back trying to know you, inside and out, you'd judge me for it.

I KILLED TWO PEOPLE FOR YOU. I'M A LOVER. A HERO. THE OPPOSITE OF A PSYCHOPATH.

It was my decision to spare you the pain of life.