Quotes About Sacrifice

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.

Entire civilisation stands on submission and obedience of mother.

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

I was always ready to submit my life to my career - but I don't think anything could have truly prepared me for the reality of that.

I am still not at all in favour of offering any defence. Even if the court had accepted that petition submitted by some of my co-accused regarding defence, etc., I would not have defended myself.

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

Each January, I put God first and honor him with the first of our substance by sowing a first fruits offering of one month's pay. That is a big sacrifice, but it is a seed for the harvest I am believing for in the coming year. And God always provides!

When Dad stopped playing in a rock band and was done chasing that dream, he devoted himself to his family. I would love to do the same thing - just without driving a 1991 Suburban and wearing sweatpants, a fanny pack, and six-year-old Pumas.

I'm very drawn to subversive comedy like Alexander Payne and Jason Reitman. But at the end of the day, if you want to do great work, you have to pay your dues.

I have to pay a huge price to express myself. You get people asking to take photos all the time; you can't ride the subway... I still ride the subway, but there's always people sneaking photos or coming up to you.

I know what it's like to do whatever you need to do to make sure that your kids are happy and well and succeed.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

My Mama always use to tell me, If you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for...

War comes and goes but a soldier stays eternal

If you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

Root People may be hard to find because they're not trying to be seen. They do their work underground. But quietly and without fanfare, they provide help and support and nourishment. They are happy when I thrive.

IN THIS ERA of instant gratification and gotta-have-it-now impatience, it's hard to imagine putting everything you have, and I mean everything—all your money, all your

payment and money that should have gone to my apartment, and rented the 14th Street Playhouse in downtown Atlanta. I hired actors, built scenery, and rented props. I did the whole nine yards on my own, spending all I had to my name.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

traedor o llevador de Cristo

La mort seule – la sienne propre comme celle des autres – permet d'atteindre l'absolu : en sacrifiant sa vie, on prouve qu'on chérit son idéal plus qu'elle.

perdre la vie, c'est mettre tout son courage en un seul geste. La vie, elle, peut exiger un courage de tous les jours, de tous les instants ; elle peut être, elle aussi, un sacrifice, mais qui n'a rien de flamboyant : si je dois sacrifier mon temps et mes forces, je suis bien obligé de rester en vie. En ce sens, vivre devient plus difficile que mourir.