Quotes About Sacrifice

Sillä mitä on saaliin vapaus? Rakkaudella odottaa, kunnes tulee kuolema ja syö.

Don't shave my head to make your wig of selfishness. Shave it because you care.

I'm willing to die for the woman I love. I just want to take 75 years to do it.

If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that's just what I'll do. It's this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I'd be a good politician.

Panno Maria, když už je nutno, abych um?el taky já, nedej bych um?el jako ten pes, dej a? um?u jednoho krásného dne na barikád? revoluce s puškou v ruce.

It is not easy to give of yourself if you still have many unmet needs. Yet, mothering requires constant giving.

Using freedom to excuse foolishness is the highest form of ignorance. Remember, people died for those rights.

I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.

This [the Lord's Supper] is a strange meal indeed, in which Jesus is the host and also the guest and also the food.

God does not demand anything of us that God has not already done. In fact, God does not just ask us to do what God has done; God enables us to take that step.

A good provider is one who leaves.

Love is expressed most perfectly through sacrifice, and this is why you will never find a real love story that lacks it.

It could be said that he didn't make time to enter prayer. Rather, he made time for the sake of others to come out of it.

If you want a true man, you need to know what one looks like. For starters, a guy cannot be considered a man unless he treats a woman with dignity. When a boy learns how to forget himself for the good of another, he becomes a man. This transition does not occur at puberty; it comes when he learns the meaning of sacrifice.

MAGIC secret. It was a prime example of the brutal choices that codebreakers must live with. Do you take risks to keep a secret that may save hundreds of thousands of future lives, or do you expose the secret to save a small number of lives right now? William once referred to this broad dilemma as "cryptologic schizophrenia," adding, "What to do? Thus far, no real psychiatric or psychoanalytic cure has been found for the illness.

It was the only time before or since when Americans became emotionally invested in the idea of self-deprivation and frugality. Third graders roamed their neighborhoods in packs, gathering scrap materials, tires, and paper and cooking fat and old sneakers whose soles could be sacrificed for the rubber. The Big Three automakers stopped making cars and started making planes. Factory workers took secrecy oaths. Everybody had a secret now.

Whenever executives talk about how their company is really like a big ol' family, beware. They're usually not referring to how the company is going to protect you no matter what or love you unconditionally. You know, like healthy families would. Their motive is rather more likely to be a unidirectional form of sacrifice: yours.

If the only way you can inspire the troops is by a regimen of exhaustion, it's time to look for some deeper substance. Because what trickles down is less likely to be admiration but dread and fear instead. A leader who sets an example of self-sacrifice can't help but ask self-sacrifice of others.

Sleep is for the weak! Real A players only need four to five hours! Great accomplishments require great sacrifice! Bull. Shit.

Yet somehow it's still frequently seen as heroic to sacrifice yourself, your health, and even your ability to do your job just to prove your loyalty to THE MISSION. Fuck the mission. No mission (in business, anyway) is worthy of such dire personal straits.

Have you heard about those companies whose benefits include game-console rooms, cereal snack bars, top-chef lunches and dinners, nap rooms, laundry service, and free beer on Fridays? It seems so generous, but there's also a catch: You can't leave the office.

So sacrifice some of your darlings for the greater good. Cut your ambition in half. You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole. Most

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.

Having a good work ethic means taking the initiative to get the job done, delivering as agreed without excuses or blame, being willing to make personal sacrifice for the good of the organization, and being loyal to the company and people with whom you work.