Quotes About Sacrifice

I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.

I thank all missionaries, men and women who quietly work hard for the Lord and their brothers and sisters.

I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

Men and women serving in the military deserve better than what they're giving - what we're giving them. They don't know what they're going to be doing tomorrow.

Women do a lot of uncomfortable things for men - and I appreciate it all. I appreciate high heels. I appreciate thongs.

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.

Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.