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Quotes About Sacrifice

At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved
~ James Cameron
What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?
~ James Hogg
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
~ John F. Kennedy
When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.
~ Len Deighton
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
~ Theodore Parker
Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.
~ Thomas Sowell
But what an mortal man do to secure his own salvation?" Mortal man can do just what God bids him do. Be can repent and believe. He can arise and follow Christ as Matthew did.
~ Washington Gladden
So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.
~ William Shakespeare
I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.
~ Chief Joseph
When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.
~ David Baldacci
Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
~ David O. McKay
But even in your world it's a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.
~ Diane Duane
Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God.
~ Dwight L. Moody
There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......like a man.
~ Enson Inoue
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
~ Gautama Buddha
... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
~ John Buchan, The 39 Steps
Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.
~ Ellen Tauscher
The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked
~ Keith Miller
Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
~ Wayne Allard
They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
~ A. E. Housman
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
~ Aeschylus