Quotes About Sacrifice

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

This is a good day to die. Follow me!

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

Don't give until it hurts, give until it feels good.

For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.

As a revolutionary, I don't just want to sit by and say, "Oh this feels good, let's just do it." I'm going to die for what I believe in and stand for it.

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

Good dreams don't come cheap You've got to pay for them.

The miracle of Good Friday is that there was no miracle. Legions of angels stood - with swords sheathed - watching as the Son took our place.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.