Quotes About Sacrifice

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

How rude for the created to tell the Creator "I wasn't worth it. You didn't do a good job when you made me. I wasn't worth dying for." You don't get a choice! He's the one who gets to decide.

Sometimes pain is for the greater good.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

Hunger is good discipline.

I will probably go to jail, but do you know what? There's a lot of good people who go to jail.

Now, who can call 'Good Friday' good? - A term too oft misunderstood - You, who were bought by the blood of His cross, You can call 'Good Friday' good.

You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.

Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.

I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

Sometimes the good guy rips out innocent people's throats. That's just something the world need to live with if it wants the good guy to keep saving the day.

I never mind contorting myself for a good cause.

A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C.

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.

The good leader carries water for his people.

Good intentions are not enough; commitment and sacrifice are necessary.

Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.

What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

When you are made to choose between two good things... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other.