Quotes About Sacrifice

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

You've got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

They alone live, who live for others.

Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

I would give everything if I could only keep my family.

Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.