Quotes About Sacrifice

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.

I surrendered all my privacy to write this book. It was so hard and so painful. I went through so much crazy stuff. But I wanted people to realize that North Koreans are just like them.

My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not as important as the message you want to leave.

My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.

Growing up, my parents made a lot of sacrifices for my brother and I to go to private school and to attend some of the football camps. They got through some hard times, but it was for me, and that's what I've learned from them. I'm very grateful for that.

I never realized what a great privilege it is to be able to use the voice for Christ until I was deprived of it.

In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll risk anything for the privilege. No one attends church in China casually, or for a social advantage - quite the opposite.

My interest only is trying to help the lives of the people of this state, try to educate people and create jobs. It's not even for me. I've never gained anything. I don't even take a salary. I've never gained anything from being here except for the joy and the privilege of serving the people of this state.

My husband is very fortunate to be part of the government. It is a great honor and privilege, and in no way is his work, or my part in this, any kind of sacrifice.

I love the game, and I do not feel that I have sacrificed anything. On the contrary, I feel privileged to do something that I love.

It is embarrassing that a player would give up his career and the chance to compete for the biggest prizes in the game just for money.

I do have great memories from when my pops got inducted. Obviously, knowing him and knowing how hard he worked in pro football for so long and what he sacrificed, the physical side of it, the injuries, and the grinding and now eight years into the NFL you know what hard work that is.

So kids that have pro potential and want to take a loan so that their families don't have to deal with it, why can't you?

There's so much that goes into being a pro athlete that people have no idea about.

If you want to do something for the rest of your life, it's not going to be easy, especially being a pro hockey player, so you need to work at it.

I hate to admit it, but my family was on the back burner for a good part of my career. I was so engrossed in what I was doing that I took my VCR home, ate dinner, went to my room and watched five games. Four days after the Pro Bowl, I'd be at the gym. But I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Football was my way out.

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

I think death is the aesthetic part of chess, seeing your opponent's army fall. Producing a sacrifice in order to mate is the aesthetic part of it. It's a beautiful, bloodless war.

Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.