Quotes About Sacrifice

I wanted to confess that if someone took out a gun and killed me onstage he would be doing me a favor.

Heroes prided themselves on a thing called generosity. And what was generosity? It was the giving away of something to those that had not earned it, and it was usually done by those that had not earned it.

The Corn King and the Spring Queen, The Conquered, and Memoirs of a Spacewoman.

Occasionally, and for everyone's good, mankind were instructed to offer a fresh and juicy princess to their own particular dragon. It was said that the princesses enjoyed the experience. Certainly the dragons did.

No sacrifice is too great for our children. Whatever we do for them comes back to us in blessings a thousandfold.

What is wrong with life is human memory, she thought. What is the point of life and history--all that human beings sacrifice and endure, overcome and rejoice over--if we do not remember? What point are the centuries, years, months, hours, minutes, if they slip through our fingers, if we learn nothing?

The dates arranged necessitated expensive cross-country plane trips, a situation that understandably left most of them languishing in solitary gloom on Saturday nights.

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

concentration of strength, activity, and a firm resolve to perish gloriously.

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

Respect the burden.

The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the reestablishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.

Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

Well then, I will tell you. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day millions will die for Him...

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

siam forti quando siamo risoluti e pronti a morire