Quotes About Sacrifice

I keep thinking about all the time away from my family this will cause, and the time away from the other family at Pixar," Jobs said. "But the only reason I want to do it is that the world will be a better place with Apple in it.

Everyone must, from time to time, make a sacrifice on the altar of stupidity, to please the deity and mankind.

There was the mother who offered up three of her flock of sons, the Dutch surgeon who wanted to study bodies that had been blown apart, and the Benedictine monk who promised to pray for America if it would pay off his gambling debts.

Would you cure your own child from being schizophrenic if you knew that, if you didn't, he would become a Vincent van Gogh and transform the world of art? (Don't forget: Van Gogh committed suicide.

At the age of 31, he had five children to raise, a trade to tend, and a shop to keep. He needed a robust new wife, and he needed her quickly.

one is obliged sometimes to give up some smaller points in order to obtain greater.

No sean tan severos conmigo —les respondió a los Born—. Todo el mundo debe, de vez en cuando, hacer un sacrificio ante el altar de la estupidez, a fin de agradar al dios de la humanidad. Y yo lo he hecho a fondo con mi artículo.

It is a joy for me to have a son who has inherited the main traits of my personality: the ability to rise above mere existence by sacrificing one's self through the years for an impersonal goal.

In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.—A 39.

I am impassioned for independence; I sacrifice all for it … and am tortured more by all the smallest strings than others are by chains.—XXI, 88.

To the British, Dunkirk symbolizes a generosity of spirit, a willingness to sacrifice for the common good. To Americans, it has come to mean Mrs. Miniver, little ships, The Snow Goose, escape by sea. To the French, it suggests bitter defeat; to the Germans, opportunity forever lost.

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.

THE EMERGENCY ROOM at any hospital in the middle of the night is mainly made up of the consequences of love.

No, no, no, no, no. Not at all. People take jobs they don't want, stay in marriages they hate, pay taxes for things they don't wanna do, and live among people they don't like. They love their enemies and hate their friends, break their promises and forget about bein' happy altogether.

This distinction was very important to him: His mother did love him but not enough to save him.

I gave my children the kind of dreams they could live by, but dreams are like oceans, Mr. McGill. If they're worth a damn they're bigger than the dreamer, and sometimes, when the one dreaming wants to be as big as what they imagine, the wave pulls'em down.

Nothing could ever replace the treasure of America's men and women killed or forever maimed by Japan's attack, but Nimitz looked around Pearl Harbor and decided that it could have been much worse. On the list of physical casualties, there were three glaring omissions that would prove to be major strategic blunders on the part of the Japanese.

Which of them would sit six hours on a wet hillside to hear a godly sermon?

Real loves means a yielding of the heart to another person. It means commitment, loyalty, and trust.

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

life. You gave up on the book and the job and the money to save my life. I could fall in love with you." I've

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

Lord, I do not know fully what the value of the blood is, but I know that the blood has satisfied Thee; so the blood is enough for me, and it is my only plea.

If you have not experienced the death of self, your spiritual life will have little real progress.