Quotes About Sacrifice

This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.

And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.

Honesty compels serious men, on examination of their consciences, to admit that the old faith is no longer compelling. It is the very peak of Christian virtue that demands the sacrifice of Christianity.

A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.

more than 50 per cent of Amstetten's menfolk who had marched off to fight for Hitler did not make it back home.

la pobreza es para los unos la prueba de la paciencia y de la resignación, y la riqueza es para los otros la prueba de la caridad y de la abnegación.

La historia de la cristiandad habla de los mártires que iban al suplicio con alegría; hoy, en vuestra sociedad, no hay necesidad, para ser cristiano, ni del holocausto, ni del martirio, ni del sacrificio de la vida, sino única y sencillamente del sacrificio de vuestro egoísmo, de vuestro orgullo y de vuestra vanidad. Triunfaréis si la caridad os inspira y si la fe os sostiene. (Espíritu protector, Cracovia, 1861).

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Jeanne's sisters thought nothing of themselves.... Helen stayed up late in Brookline, baking. Lemon squares, and brownies, pecan bars, apple cake, sandy almond cookies. Alone in her kitchen, she wrapped these offerings in waxed paper and froze them in tight-lipped containers.... Helen was the baker of the family. What she felt could not be purchased. She grieved from scratch.

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

You risked your life - your life that you promised to me - for the greater good.

to serve so selflessly, you have to subdue something in yourself.

He raised the gun higher, aiming it over my shoulder, and I knew there were no words—no logic—that could change what he was thinking. So I stopped thinking. I stopped waiting. I stopped planning and fearing and hating the man with the gun. I stopped being afraid for me, and I started caring only about my sister.

A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's not about ignoring fear. It's about facing it, knowing the risks and the costs and sacrificing safety and security anyway.

When I took aim at the very place Amirah had been just seconds before and pulled the trigger, I knew the risk. I knew the cost. And I would do it all over again in a heartbeat if I had to.

You do a great many things for strangers, Katarina. What are you willing to do for your friends?

Would you die to stop them, Agent Townsend?" "Yes." He didn't miss a beat. I pushed up my sleeves, revealing the fading slashes on my arms. "Then think about what I would do.

bad things for good reasons

The next day is a blur of dress fittings and dance lessons and trips to various salons with Ms. Chancellor. Some of her instruments of torture are hot. Some are cold. Some are hard and some are soft. All are dangerous, I decide. If the army knew about curling irons, basic training might look very, very different.

La belleza es un monstruo, una deidad sangrienta a la que hay que aplacar con constantes sacrificios...

Y después el final, el instante en el que había acabado todo, carguen, apunten, fuego, y trece cuerpos desplomándose a la vez en la tierra del cementerio del Este, veintiséis ojos cerrados para siempre, veintiséis brazos y piernas inmóviles, trece gargantas mudas y todavía calientes en la temperatura de sus últimos gritos, vivas a la República que volvía a morir cada mañana en las voces de sus hijos

En la guerra, se mata y se muere. La guerra es cruel, y siembra crueldad, es temible, y siembra miedo, es arbitraria, y siembra arbitrariedades. La guerra es también, a veces, el precio de la libertad, de la justicia, del futuro.

In the name of Jesus Christ" (suggesting that the words to be spoken are not his own but, rather, are Christ's words and Christ's will).