Quotes About Sacrifice

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences.

What you get free costs too much.

She's somebody's mother, boys, you know, For all she's aged and poor and slow.

There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his political life.

You do not know, you cannot know, the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night, every ounce of your energy. There is no rest, no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.

Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.

Lord, if any have to die this day, let it be me, for I am ready.

We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, "God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them."

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away.

Judas needed the money for a sick friend.

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.

Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.