Quotes About Sacrifice

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

When I played, sometimes we would have one game in a week; now there are no free moments, no time, not even for family.

I didn't like it in the beginning, but later on, if I was in Jerry West's shoes, I would do the same thing. I would trade myself for Kobe, no-brainer.

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.

There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life.

I bleed like nobody else.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

In the end, life is wonderful but nonetheless a series of trade offs, especially between business/professional endeavours and family/community.

Mum worked nonstop, doing two, sometimes three, jobs throughout the 80s.

When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn't know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.

Becoming a good player so quickly made me miss a lot of the normal life of a normal teenager.

So, you do make a lot of sacrifices in the business, but you have to stay humble and you have to live that normal life. That's what I do now. It keeps me grounded.

When I first arrived at UConn, I told myself I was going to dedicate my life to basketball. And when you do something like that, you alienate a lot of other things in your life that most people think are normal things to do.

During Black History Month, we not only should celebrate those who have made North Carolina a better place to live for everyone, but we should also acknowledge the deep sacrifices people made to get us to where we are now.

I know North Korea is the most ridiculous country in the world, but for me, my mum, my brother, and my families and old memories are so important.

We're used to a story in modern terms as an information delivery device. Certainly on television and even with the studio films, there's really only one note that you get, and that's clarity. And people will sacrifice everything for clarity. They'll sacrifice the joke. They'll sacrifice the moment, or the romance.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

I've taken fights on short notice while injured to help save shows, and in return I've been taken care of.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

It's not selling out, necessarily, to do something to gain some kind of notoriety that gives you the cache to do be able to go and do something else that you want. There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.

For me, it was my dream as a kid to play two sports at the highest level I possibly could. Doing that at Notre Dame just meant I had to sacrifice in ways a normal college student wouldn't have had to sacrifice.