Quotes About Sacrifice

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what's done for Christ will last.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Sometimes you have to put your own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release a dream in somebody else. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.