Quotes About Sacrifice

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.

The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.

A cup to the dead already, - Hurrah for the next that dies.

For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, 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 hills; we shall never surrender.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.

I have prayed in her fields of poppies, I have laughed with the men who died - But in all my ways and through all my days Like a friend He walked beside. I have seen a sight under Heaven That only God understands, In the battle's glare I have seen Christ there With the Sword of God in His hand.

Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders' fields.

Having given all he had, He then is very rich indeed.

The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.

You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.

Not my will, but thine, be done.

How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!

There is no victory without pain.

Excellence costs a great deal.

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

Real heroes don't wear capes. Real superheroes wear uniforms and badges and stethoscopes!

You must lose time to have time.

George W. Bush will protect your unborn fetus then send your grown child to die in war.