Quotes About Sacrifice

I'm old enough to have lived through a time when Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and others died so people of color could vote.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

'The Underland Chronicles' is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn't; they just kept moving the violence forward until it's gone out of control.

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.

We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.

That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.

For centuries, from the dirt roads of Trenton, to the hills of Virginia, to the trenches of Amiens, our armed forces never fought in a war they didn't win.

Growing up in colonial Virginia, if you know anything about that part of the country, there was a number of tensions there. Because of that, you heard the family members talk about Dr. King and many others who were not just speaking out, but sacrificing a ton so that our world, our country could be a better place.

For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.

Goodness knows, I tried. But I think it's virtually impossible for the right kind of man to be married to a movie star.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life.

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Obviously, nobody chooses not to have kids because they'd rather sleep in late. It's a very visceral decision, and it's a complicated decision.

Our veterans gave everything for this great country - often serving in far-off corners of the world and returning with scars, not all of which are visible.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

because she wished most of all that her son's life could be easier for his sake, that he could live a fulfilling life,

We can't have change without loss.

As I grew older, I found I could surrender my own comfort so effortlessly it didn't qualify as sacrifice.

When you love that deeply, you'll sacrifice for the other person's happiness. Even if it means that you have to be unhappy. That's real love, when you can let go of your loved ones so they can be what they need to be.

What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--

Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence. -Engraved on the monument Clay built