Quotes About Sacrifice

Who kept the faith, fought the fight and gave their life; the glory theirs, the duty ours!

Though I constantly take my life in my hands, I will not forget your law.

He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised to life to make us right with God.

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life-your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life-and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.

Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. Remembering those that layed dow...

Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty life is a misery

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live i

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

We always say 'I would kill for my family' or 'I would die for my family' but would you really? I mean, when really put in that situation, would you really give up your life? Do you really love something or someone that much?

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.