Quotes About Sacrifice

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.

It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.

It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute minimum (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man.

All duty is inconvenient to a greater or lesser degree, or it would not be duty.

The tragedy—and the entire point—of being a parent was the moment when the story stopped being about you.

You work harder because everything is on the line. Your name, your honor, your family, your life. Those burger flippers might have a better life expectancy—but what kind of life is it anyway, you have to ask yourself.

Ohne Vergütungen, die weit über das eigentlich Angemessene hinausgehen, wäre der Beruf des Politikers viel zu unerfreulich.

One of the soldiers slapped Gansukh on the legs with the shaft of his spear, and the Mongol warrior rolled away from the blow, getting his legs under him. Even though Gansukh didn't understand a word of what was being said, the message was clear. Clenching his teeth, Gansukh wobbled to his feet, and as he stood upright, one of the other soldiers whacked him across the back, causing him to stumble and nearly fall.

In the distant past, kings had shown the world that they meant it by strapping on a sword and riding into war, putting their lives on the line. Getting behind the controls of a plane and pointing it at a runway was as close as one could reasonably come in the modern world to the same public blood oath.

a post-agrarian religion in which literal sacrifice had been replaced by symbolic; they opened their meals with a re-enactment in effigy of that, then praised their God for a while, then asked Him for goods and services.

WITH CNÁN'S HELP, Raphael dressed the knife wound on Haakon's hip. Raphael moved stiffly, and Haakon eventually saw why. A tiny stub of a broken arrow protruded from Raphael's back. When Raphael finished with Haakon, Cnán said something about the arrow.

Fearless for oneself, fear for others—that must be what it means to be a hero.

You know, now, the decision I made. Which was to suffer for the greater good. Because society will go astray if there are not those who, like me, imagine many outcomes. Let those scenarios run rampant in their minds. Anticipate the worst that could happen. Take steps to prevent it. If the price of that—the price of having a head full of dark imaginings—is personal suffering, then so be it.

since they don't make a lot of money or get a lot of respect, you have to prove you're personally committed and that you don't care about those trappings.