Quotes About Sacrifice

And that leaves you with an interesting choice... Do you sacrifice you own happiness and feelings of peace in order to have this relationship, or do you start to get well and choose a real life...?

Plagues reshape our familiar social order, require us to disperse and live apart, wreck economies, replace trust with fear and suspicion, invite some to blame others for their predicament, embolden liars, and cause grief. But plagues also elicit kindness, cooperation, sacrifice, and ingenuity.

So it came to the morning of 21 October 1805, a day that would live for ever in the minds of those who were there.

some torn in half, some blinded and maimed, others mutilated beyond all recognition.

One night he had shared his quarters with a wounded drummer boy, protecting the child from cold.

in return for Joseph resigning his right to succeed him as Emperor of France.

was said to have been made from the nails that had pinned Jesus to the cross.

To lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose.

When you are having difficulties, a single attack of "Yeahbut maybe I should compromise a little for the sake of practicality" can bring an inglorious end to the fulfillment of your dream.

I have their letters in front of me, three from Priscilla and one from Winnie. Together, they dramatise the proverb: 'When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

If loving someone was reason enough to be able to stick around, then I'd still be there beside you. And if love was ever enough to save someone's life, then yours would have saved me, too. Because no one ever gave it more easily, or more generously, than you did.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

Nah, pride's just a slick dress uniform and a cheap lie that'll get you killed when the people you're fighting for, who aren't doing any of the actual fighting, start selling you out and

He said, "A new commandment I give you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you." And how had he loved them? Not by feeling emotional! But He washed their feet anyway, because love does not do what it feels, it does what is needed.

Empires are built with broken bones and rivers of blood.

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.

You scrape away your face and step into the dark...

Sacrifice is the movement of violent liberation from servility, the collapse of transcendence. Inhibiting the sacrificial relapse of isolated being is the broad utilitarianism inherent to humanity, correlated with a profane delimitation from ferocious nature that finds its formula in theology. In its profane aspect, religion is martialled under a conception of God; the final guarantor of persistent being, the submission of (ruinous) time to reason, and thus the ultimate principle of utility.

don't want to see, you must decide if the battle is worth your time and effort. In your life, only you can decide what is worth going to battle for, keeping in mind what may be sacrificed in the process.

What I can say with honesty is that my research in Russia and in Germany has brought me nothing but the worsening of my eyesight and the waste of years of my life. And I did it all for you.