Quotes About Sacrifice

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

Most saints live to regret their career choice.

People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.

We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry.

It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.

The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.

Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.

Every time I took another job, my dad would ask, 'Why are you putting yourself through it again, haven't you got enough money?' I wish I'd spent more time with them, I think anyone who loses their parents will understand that, but I also know what he would have said. 'You crack on Steve, get on with it, son.'

If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes.

Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.

Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food. I have befriended people in the neighborhood who I knew had mothers who cooked three meals a day for food, and I sacrificed a childhood for food and grew up in immense shame.