Quotes About Sacrifice

I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

The idea of Cable as a man out to protect his daughter by any means necessary gives the character an emotional heft and underlines everything he does. It's richly fulfilling.

You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.

From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.

There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!

That seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

Self dedication is a spiritual experience.

Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN'T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.