Quotes About Sacrifice

We are grateful for the tireless and selfless efforts of our health care providers and first responders who risk their own safety to protect the health and well-being of Missourians.

My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their young life to this. Their families will have given up all sorts of things to allow them to do that.

Every time a fighter steps into the ring, he's borrowing against his future well-being.

In my mom's case, she did a fantastic job. She raised four well-rounded, smart boys on a public school teacher's salary. She's impressive. She was always there for us. She sacrificed for us constantly.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

My mom is a woman who grew up in a small farming village in the West Bank called Beit Ur El Foka. She only went to school up to 8th grade and then dropped out to go work in a tailor shop that made dresses and different embroidered designs to make money for her family.

My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.

One of the reasons my husband and I connect is our shared value of service. It's why he went off to West Point at age 17 and never looked back. It's why I got into journalism in college.

My mother cried when I told her I really didn't want to go to West Point. So I went.

I call on the Western democracies and primarily on the leader of the free world, the United States: Do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938, when enlightened European democracies decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a convenient temporary solution... Israel will not be Czechoslovakia.

The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front.

We're told all the time to give up everything for love. That's the Western notion of what love is - love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women.

Back in 2008, after we'd won the election, no one really expected me to keep teaching. But I couldn't just walk away... So I did both. For eight years, that was my life's dichotomy. State receptions - and midterms. Dinner with the most powerful man on earth - and study sessions with single moms.

What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.

At times I've played through extreme pain or not practiced for weeks and tried to go out there and play.

My poor kids have accepted that being dropped off late to birthday parties, practices, and yes, school, is just part of the large family package.

However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.

Americans knock themselves out, especially since 9/11, praising the military.

Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.

I preach in countries if I say 'Jesus Christ is the only way, the truth and the life,' they'll arrest me.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is more enduring than fame, more precious than riches, more to be desired than happiness.

It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of devotion.