Quotes About Sacrifice

I should have realized that what's good for movie stars doesn't work for a Cabinet secretary's wife.

I think it would be frustrating having to do things you wouldn't want to do, having to make movies you didn't like.

Playing three games each week, you are away a lot. So, yeah, moving away from family and friends and being away all the time would have to be my biggest sacrifice.

In high school, it was tough for me moving away, going to school and practice while my English wasn't that good and living with a family that I didn't know at all. I had to make a lot of sacrifices, but my dad always told me if I wanted this - if I really wanted to get to the NBA - that I would have to make sacrifices in my life.

It starts with family - they've sacrificed so much for me, with my parents moving away from each other when we were young, for tennis.

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

Growing up, we were a poor yet tightknit family. My mother worked multiple jobs and always made sure that her kids never had to want for anything.

My parents had multiple jobs.

My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could buy Fernandez, my first grand prix horse.

I saw my aunties and my mum give up a part of themselves and their dreams to have kids. There were things they wanted to achieve in life, but they had kids instead.

Being a Mum is a big job.

Mum was an absolutely determined woman. She was determined I would have a good education, and they went without all sorts of things to ensure it.

I thought that if I could play rugby on TV, I'd be able to get my mum a house. That was the driving factor.

I remember the day me and my brother ate and my mum and dad did not. I know what they did for me to reach the top.

I find so often, you know, just on a very mundane level; you've got a meeting and your child's acting in a school play. You can't do both things. And it's not simply that you can't do both, but whatever you do, you're going to be neglecting something that's really important.

I would do anything for Ryan Murphy, absolutely anything.

I want to say something very clearly. I understand that I'm a self-confident person who might come off with the wrong attitude sometimes, but I don't mean to. I just believe in certain things, and I know exactly what I want. I've always sacrificed things in order to become the best musician I could be.

The king must die so that the country can live.

I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.

More than my own happiness, it's my mother's happiness that makes me happy.

There's definitely still a lot of hurt from losing my guys or the fact that I got out and I felt like it wasn't my time yet.

I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have no heart to shed Filipino blood.

I give my heart for this sport. I give my leg for this sport. I give my time for my family for this sport.

I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.