Quotes About Sacrifice

I want to ask you to place a significant seed in God's soil and see it work for you. Just as a special sacrifice was offered on the Day of Atonement, let me ask you to bring a very special offering.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at home. Like the vast majority of people in America, I couldn't take unpaid leave.

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

Will do Satan's work for food.

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.

In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.