Quotes About Sacrifice

When we're in production, it's 14 hours a day, and we couldn't be less involved in the world. My friends all hate me during that time because I can't see anyone. We say goodbye to everything.

I can't go out there and be gassed and trying to go out there and make a play just for individual stats. Got to do the best thing for the team, which is to put myself out there when it's most productive for us.

War is a profane thing.

A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

I started doing theatre, and that's when I really fell in love with the profession; I learned a lot. It felt a bit weird to go from living in New York on Broadway to university, so I kept putting it off. Then, eventually, I had to give up the place.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

Having it all means different things to different people. I think it's an individual choice. Nothing is perfect. Everyone makes sacrifices. For me, it's worked out well. I have children. I have a very interesting career. But it's not for everybody.

Vets are different than other people. Frontline or support, they carry themselves differently than the rest of us. It is as if they entered the service as one person and came out another, and that is the person who they are the rest of their lives.

Putting the need of your team above personal self-interest is a difficult thing to do.

Being a parent, is without any doubt, one of the most difficult things that you can do in life.

I had a very difficult time deciding to go on my mission. It was hard to set aside my basketball career.

For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

I lived and breathed football. Now I have difficulty walking because of that: because I gave much more than I actually had to give.

The sacrifices you make in your 20s pay off 30 and 40 years later. The same is true when it comes to financial progress. Every dime saved in your 20s turns into a dollar in your 60s.

I might be the only one who's never taken a dime from my son.

Before I was a mum, I could live in another dimension, create another world, and it wouldn't bother me if I was not totally available or totally myself. Today I cannot do that anymore.

War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

My team-mates appreciate that I do the dirty work and I know it is necessary.

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

I often think about Christ having all power, but He abdicated the power to live a sacrificial life for His children. In His own words he told his disciples that His meat was to do the will of the Father.

Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.