Quotes About Sacrifice

For the fans out in public, I don't make enough money to not fight.

I would rather die early than enter Malacanang.

I'm not entering politics for name or fame.

No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead.

True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.

When I left Facebook, I left an enormous amount of equity on the table. I thought, 'I don't want to be a slave to money. I want to be a slave to something bigger: an ambition, a goal.'

I think, at the end of the day, that's the essence of 'The 100': 'Save your friends first.'

Barcelona, negó entonces con la cabeza Dalmau, era una ciudad tremendamente cruel con quienes la engrandecían entregando su vida y su salud, su familia y sus hijos.

Jesus, as someone divine, must go.

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.

Would it interest you, at all, to know that he did try to scramble back onto the ice? That his hands grabbed and his fingers clawed, but the ice—that treacherous, greedy, teasing ice—kept breaking and breaking and breaking, sketching a path straight for me? And that when he saw what would happen to me, he stopped trying to save himself? Would you believe that someone could love anyone that much?

May it always cost the head as long as it does not cost the heart

Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.

Compromise for your Dream but NEVER Compromise on your Dream.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

This is it, the most powerful thing in the world because all men go crazy for it, more precious than gold since for its sake rich men lose fortunes, sweeter than power because craving for it makes leaders of countries risk their jobs, more powerful than honor because it makes fools of respectable men… It's more powerful than all the world for it contains the whole world plus heaven and hell beside… The power of this grace makes nuclear bombs look like firecrackers.

My share, it should be lost.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau

And that's what makes me sure I did the right thing. Sometimes loving someone means you have to be willing to let them go.

If you have a faith, if you've some deep conviction, whether you're a Nazi or a Communist or what the hell else you are then you can sacrifice yourself and others to your faith. But from the moment you've no faith from that moment you live in a deep inner confusion from then on you're exposed to what Strindberg calls 'the powers'.

We make each other alive; it doesn't make a difference if it hurts.