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Quotes About Sacrifice

In a world where we're often judged harshly for identifying and revealing our needs, doing so can be very frightening. Women, in particular, are susceptible to criticism. For centuries, the image of the loving woman has been associated with sacrifice and the denial of one's own needs to take care of others. Because women are socialized to view the caretaking of others as their highest duty, they often learn to ignore their own needs.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Jest co? okrutnego w tych splotach okoliczno?ci, które nazywamy krajami i które – jak si? nam wmawia – s? czym? nam bliskim, co powinni?my kocha? ca?? dusz? i chroni?, nawet za cen? ?ycia.
~ Unknown
I like the place because, first and foremost, the beer is of excellent quality, and secondly, because the name is a reminder that greatness often has a cost. Few people accomplish anything of merit without sacrifice." Shay shrugged. "True enough, but some people don't seek greatness." "Alas, sometimes greatness is thrust upon people.
~ Unknown
Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.
~ Martha Finley
God calls us to a wild adventure, not a tea party, my dear. I don't follow Jesus because he can give me a life without pain. I follow him because he is good. Someday I will follow him right through death, and into our Heavenly Father's house." Aunt Wealthy
~ Martha Finley
I cast my lot in with a soldier, and where he was, was home to me.
~ Unknown
In the shows, I saw humans comfort each other all the time at moments like this. I had never wanted that and I still didn't. (Touching while rendering assistance, shielding humans from explosions, etc., is different.) But I was the only one here, so I braced myself and made the ultimate sacrifice. "Uh, you can hug me if you need to.
~ Martha Wells
That's the other problem with human security: they're allowed to give up.
~ Martha Wells
In the shows, I saw humans comfort each other all the time at moments like this. I had never wanted that and I still didn't. (Touching while rendering assistance, shielding humans from explosions, etc., is different.) But I was the only one here, so I braced myself and made the ultimate sacrifice. "Uh, you can hug me if you need
~ Martha Wells
I'll give you one more answer. The words Bashasa spoke to me before he died were 'Don't let everything we fought for be for nothing.
~ Martha Wells
That isn't how this works, expositor." Then he peeled Tarrow's soul from his body and ate his life.
~ Martha Wells
I had only taken three projectiles to the right shoulder, four to the left hip. This is how we fight: throw ourselves at each other and see whose parts give out first.
~ Martha Wells
ART had threatened to kill me, watched my favorite shows with me, given me a body configuration change, provided excellent tactical support, talked me into pretending to be an augmented human security consultant, saved my clients' lives, and had cleaned up after me when I had to murder some humans. (They were bad humans.) I really missed ART.
~ Martha Wells
A hero sometimes faces danger," I said. "Like a dragon-slayer or a nurse in a jungle hospital. But don't you think a hero might also be a person who does what no one else wants to do?
~ Unknown
Indian Corps and the 4th Corps will push through the barrage of fire regardless of loss, using reserves if required.
~ Martin Gilbert
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
~ Martin H. Fischer
I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Not one of you has faith until I am dearer to him than his son and his father and all men together." But this utterance of the Prophet was not so much a demand as a confirmation of the rightness of a love that had already been given - a love which found its expression so often in the words: "May my father and my mother be thy ransom.
~ Unknown
An adaptive change that is beneficial to the organization as a whole may clearly and tangibly hurt some of those who had benefited from the world being left behind.
~ Unknown
Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.
~ Martin Luther
In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.
~ Martin Luther
Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.
~ Martin Luther
He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
~ Martin Luther
A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor.
~ Martin Luther