Quotes About Sacrifice

I wish I could love someone so much that I would die from it.

I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.

War is our biggest enemy, yet we fight to kill our enemies whom we disagree with, lives are lost, at what prize?"

For love of country they accepted death.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

I think that love must be the ability to suspend one's intelligence for the sake of something. At the basis of love therefore must live imagination.

He simply wanted more money without additional responsibility. A sound investment. That is the sort of fellow that makes other people's Empire possible. Sells his birthright to a foreigner.

Whenever you interpret anything, you can read it two ways: in such a way that your interpretation creates mercy, and in such a way that it creates sacrifice.

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.

If you are in need of any spiritual thing -- joy, assurance, peace, or whatelse soever -- you can only come into full possession of it by giving an equivalent; you must pay the price for it.

When a man is rescued from selfish desire his mind is unencumbered, and he is free to work for humanity.

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Per questo ho detto che Marcellino pane e vino è il cinema della morale cattolica. Infatti, Marcellino è tutto negli occhi.

Ma se è una tela sporcata, tagliata e rotta, bisogna prima ricostituirla. Questo ricostituire, questo lavorare per ricostituire, che sarebbe persino un perdere tempo, questo è la croce.

Ma dire «tu» è essere colpiti e stupefatti dalla bellezza, dalla verità, ed è lì che incomincia la vita vera: la vita vera incomincia da un positivo, non da un negativo, non da un sacrificio.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.

It always hurts the gringo more to lose his money than his life.

Il m'arrive de penser que ce serait sympa de trouver des mecs intelligents qui veuillent bien travailler seize heures par jour pour des clopinettes –mais bon, s'ils le voulaient bien, ils ne seraient pas si intelligents.

You cannot pursue greatness and comfort at the same time.