Quotes About Sacrifice

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad.

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.

No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.'

God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses

Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?

The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.

Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

No woman who understands the gospel would ever think that any other work is more important or would ever say, "I am just a mother," for mothers heal the souls of men.