Quotes About Sacrifice

I have no complaints except for the fact that I get very little time with my family. However, the happiness they feel every time they see me doing well compensates for everything.

Being a mother for me was like, 'Oh, this is what I've been looking for my whole life.' This brings me a sense of completion. I never knew I would love this deeply. It's so nice not to worry about myself anymore. I only worry about my children.

Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that.

When it comes to relationship compromise, it's a fine balance between doing something for your own happiness, and finding happiness in being of service to another person, in whatever way that ends up being.

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

You don't stay married for 33 years and not compromise.

Life is about compromise - in relationships and at work.

Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.

If you start with a compromise, you live with a compromise for a long time.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

I had two roles for which I compromised.

Relationships are full of compromises.

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

I don't know how you make a living without a few personal compromises.

It really broke my heart when music took a back seat when I was concentrating more on films. It was like choosing between two children.

We can no more condone the wastefulness of self-serving company executives than we can the sacrifice of the lives of our citizens in a senseless war.

God lays claim to all firsts. So when you keep for yourself something that belongs to God you are desecrating what is to be consecrated to God.

I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.

I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.

Aladdin is a good soul. He is very selfless and usually does things for other people, but as he falls in love, he loses himself a little bit and starts to become someone that he is not. But he is a person with good intentions and has good people surrounding him who lead him back to where he is supposed to be.

Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.

My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.