Quotes About Sacrifice

Oftentimes, in order to do the big things, you have to let the small bad things happen.

Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.

Fíjate en lo que haces actualmente y pregúntate: «¿Qué pasaría si hiciera lo contrario que los que me rodean? ¿Qué voy a sacrificar si continúo así durante 5, 10 o 20 años más?».

a resignation to 9-to-5 drudgery in exchange for (sometimes) relaxing weekends and the occasional keep-it-short-or-get-fired vacation.

Siempre es difícil responder a eso, porque lleva implícita la pregunta de por qué no lo he hecho ya. Pero diría que cuando miro hacia mi yo más joven del pasado, era increíblemente convencional, increíblemente competitivo. Y, cuando eres muy competitivo, te vuelves muy bueno en aquello en lo que compites contra otras personas. Pero lo haces a cambio de perderte muchas otras cosas. »Si eres un jugador de ajedrez

You won't take a bullet for pleasure or power, but you will for meaning.

Hacer menos trabajo fútil para concentrarse en cosas de mayor importancia personal para uno NO es pereza. Esto nos resulta difícil de aceptar a la mayoría porque nuestra cultura recompensa el sacrificio personal en lugar de la productividad personal.

Those moments show me that this whole thing is bigger than me. It's the realization that there is a "will to pleasure," a "will to power" and, in the words of Viktor Frankl, a "will to meaning." You won't take a bullet for pleasure or power, but you will for meaning.

My definition of 'love' is being willing to die for someone who you yourself want to kill. That, in my experience, is kind of the deal.

when you're very competitive, you get good at the thing you're competing with people on. But it comes at the expense of losing out on many other things.

Pricing low is shortsighted, because someone else is always willing to sacrifice more profit margin and drive you both bankrupt.

y que debemos sacrificar nuestra privacidad para tener seguridad.»

Sometimes you need to stop doing things you love in order to nurture the one thing that matters most.

La nuestra es una cultura en la que quemamos el talento para sobrevivir durmiendo muy poco,

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time.

Making a concerted effort to trade your short-term gratification for a longer-term payoff. Whereas everyone else wants to get credit and be "respected," you can forget credit. You can forget it so hard that you're glad when others get it instead of you—that

Through love, Paul said, you should make yourselves slaves to one another. Thus freedom and slavery are not simply mutually exclusive terms; they stand in the closest possible relationship to one another and can only be adequately defined in terms of object and goal: what we are slave to and what we are free for.

The perfect love, unity, and joy that existed between the Father, Son, and Spirit were demolished, for a time, for our sake. This is the ground on which we build all relationships. Every time you are tempted to shun another believer, remember that the Father, Son, and Spirit were torn asunder so that you might be united.

The essence of "new" is, of course, the modern version of Roman coliseum shows and gladiator combats. American civilization, for certain explicit biblical reasons, apparently requires that its leaders, its political heroes be publicly sacrificed.

Only in self-sacrifice can man live fully as man, Catholic teaching states. Some people sacrifice for an idea, but really, John Paul argues, we give up our lives only for other people—or for God. And that true sacrifice requires love, which in turn requires true human contact. Community bonds make that love real. And so these two popes show us that true inclusion of the poor—by living in community with them—is the only way to carry out our duty to serve the poor.

God is simply taking you where you do not want to go to produce in you what you could not achieve on your own.

The Macedonians gave in the context of their lack of resources.

Have you ever wished you didn't have to give or serve?

If Christ is indeed the only prize worth living for, we need to ponder just how wonderful he is.