Quotes About Sacrifice

In life's work, bliss and sacrifice are two sides of the same coin, complementary opposites.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.

It breaks my heart when couples focus more on being wed than being married. Two become one doesn't happen without work, humility, and sacrifice.

Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering. I think it's in suffering that we realize our best selves.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.

All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.

Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.

I can promise you. If you work 12 hours, I will work for 13. If you work 14 hours, I will work for 15 hours. Why? Because I am not a 'pradhan mantri', but a 'pradhan sevak'.

When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

Mother Teresa once said, "Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile." ... The last thing many believers need is to go to another Bible study.

If a woman's work is never done, she should start earlier.

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.