Quotes About Sacrifice

I never understood when people would say, 'I would die for my child,' but you become so selfless.

For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully understood. It is the culmination of years of hard work and personal sacrifice.

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

The undocumented should pay penalties for the laws they broke by coming here, but we should remember that the founding fathers were willing to break up an empire to achieve their dreams.

Being a mother is a little like 'Groundhog's Day.' It's getting out of bed and doing the exact same things again and again and yet again - and it's watching it all get undone again and again and yet again. It's humbling, monotonous, mind-numbing, and solitary.

It was tough times in Ohio when we lived there. My dad was between unemployed and just selling random knickknacks at a flea market. My mom was a cashier at a Chinese food restaurant. They both had awesome careers back in Taiwan, and they came here for my sister and I.

If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.

Most college athletes are obsessed with getting to the pros, and many of them have proved they will do anything to get there, even if it's something unethical.

It's unfair to the hard-core stay-at-home moms to pretend you're able to have an amazing body by chasing around your kids.

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.

Tennessee obviously has a proud history of military service, but unfortunately, that also means that we have lost a lot of people serving the country who are Tennesseans.

Fortunately and unfortunately, what I love entails, and makes, a lot of money.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing.

Give away everything to have it forever.

Sometimes the burden of love is heavier than a heavy heart

Life is neither a feast nor a fun. But a fast.

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

To have extreme, laser-like focus, you must be willing to reject a lot of opportunities, even if they sound great.

To become successful, you have to let go of something to get something else of greater value.

The pursuit of any worthwhile goal requires that you give up something that feels comfortable, secure, and safe in the moment to get you closer to your future dreams.

The level of success you will experience can be predicted by looking closely at the sacrifices you are willing to make.