Quotes About Sacrifice

Try always to do what you WISH, and you will often sacrifice what you CAN do.

Si siempre intentas hacer lo que QUIERES, a menudo estarás sacrificando lo que PUEDES hacer.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

If a change in our lives require individually or socially painful sacrifices, it will be difficult to put into effect no matter how necessary that change might be. However, if we start down the road of transformation with simple, enjoyable, and tangible changes, we will soon be prepared to tackle larger issues.

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Tonight, we return the vessel of Iphigenia to the Wood, her spirit having already been absorbed by the fabric of the cosmos.

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

There are times when American lives must be risked and lost. Foreign policy cannot be paralyzed by the prospect of casualties. But lives must not be risked until we can face a parent or a spouse or a child with a clear answer to the question of why a member of that family had to die. To provide a "symbol" or a "presence" is not good enough.

American soldiers must know the reason for their sacrifices. Our GIs are not vassals or mercenaries. They are the nation's sons and daughters. We put their lives at risk only for worthy objectives. If the duty of the soldier is to risk his life, the responsibility of his leaders is not to spend that life in vain.

The infantry's mission was "to close with and destroy the enemy." No questions asked. No ambiguity. No gray areas. The infantry officer was to go into battle up front, demonstrating courage, determination, strength, proficiency, and selfless sacrifice.

Tonight, I ask, on behalf of Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, will you do what no other young women are called to do, and place your lives and honor at the feet of your country?

I decided to find you, throw myself at your feet, and beg you to have mercy on me. Honestly, I'll accept whatever you choose, Kelsey. Just don't ask me to live apart from you again. Because...I can't.

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!

Allowing him to flourish is killing my chance to flower.

Do always, without thought of reward.

Jesse has to die in order for him to be immortalised as the young effigy that he is.

My life is a small sacrifice for the betterment of others and for the furtherance of humanity.

Oh, but I do, I do owe the world my All, and so, that is what I shall give it.

The further the leap forward, the greater and more abundant the sacrifices.

Those whom give their lives to the world are the best of peoples.

To create The Philosophy as it does now exist, the youth and the sacrifice of my youth has been necessary.

To gain, we must first lose.

When we wrong God, he does not let us go, he makes us pay for our wrongs but through the death of his own son Jesus Christ. When God's people (Jews) wronged him, he weakened them in battle and caused them to be captives in Babylon for 70 years.

When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.