Quotes About Sacrifice

Countless Christians have mouthed these lines in worship for centuries: "Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate…" Look carefully at what separates the birth of Christ from his death. The world's greatest life is reduced to a comma.

The veterans of the Somme have gone now but while they lived they talked incessantly of the mud of the Somme, mud which permeated everything, clogged rifles, flowed like lava into dugouts and trenches, sucked off boots, drowned wounded men and horses and made movement either impossible or a tremendous physical effort. To fight on the Somme was bad enough; to also fight the mud of the Somme was simply too much.

One can only wonder if the generals were serious ... or mad. In all but slaughter, the Battle of the Somme was over by early October, and to continue past that point was madness indeed, but this side of Haig's character, his stubbornness combined with a seemingly incurable optimism, is one that even his supporters find difficult to defend:

At Neuve Chapelle in March 1915, the British lost almost 13,000 men in three days; at Loos in September, 59,000 men in six weeks, but most of them fell in the first two days; neither attack gained more than a few hundred yards of useless, shell-pitted, corpse-strewn ground.

And so the war was fought with new weapons and old ideas and the result was a slaughter exceeding that of any previous war. In just four years, about 9,300,000 soldiers died on the battlefields of the Great War; 3,600,000 from the nations comprising the Central Powers and 5,700,000 from the nations of the Entente.

the men of the French Army have never been short of guts. Clad in their brilliant uniforms, carrying swords and wearing white gloves, the officers of this gallant army led their men into the German machine-gun fire in 1914 . . . and then war was suddenly not glorious any more. A million men were killed or wounded trying to make this tactic work.

The 72nd Division, which had opened the battle with 12,000 men, had lost nearly 10,000 men in three days; this is as many as all the Allied armies, navies and air forces lost on D-Day 1944 - and the French losses came from a single division.

Din cauz? c? modelul meu fusese întotdeauna sacrificiul de sine, nu ÅŸtiam cine sunt dac? nu aveam pe cine s? ajut sau o suferin?? de îndurat.

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

Sweat more in practice, bleed less in war.

When we are young we sacrifice our health for wealth. But when we become old and wise, we become willing to sacrifice every bit of our wealth for just a day of good health.

What a life! All that money and all I could eat was bread and water.

Albert Camus once said that 'Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

When we are young we sacrifice our health for wealth. But when we become old and wise, we become willing to sacrifice every bit of our wealth for just a day of good health.' And

one who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.' And I liked his line 'high victory is made in those early morning hours when no one's watching and while everyone else is sleeping.

The most meaningful things in your life should never be sacrificed to those that are the least meaningful.

in life in general—you need to pay the price of success before you get all the rewards due to you.

la verdadera generosidad para con el futuro consiste en entregarlo todo al presente».

Actually, it was the easiest thing I have ever done. The decision to give up my practice and all my worldly possessions felt natural. Albert Camus once said that 'Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

Albert Camus dijo una vez que «la verdadera generosidad para con el futuro consiste en entregarlo todo al presente». Pues bien, eso hice yo.

The only way to truly get power is to give it away.

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty.

Truly enlightened people, those who experience deep happiness daily, are prepared to put off short-term pleasure for the sake of long-term fulfillment. So

Truly successful people, those who experience deep happiness daily, are prepared to put off short-term pleasure for the sake of long-term fulfillment.