Quotes About Sacrifice

when we are young we sacrifice our health for wealth and when we grow old and wise we realize what's most important—and become willing to sacrifice all our wealth for even one day of good health. You never want to be the richest person in the graveyard, you know.

Solo aquel que se consagra a una causa, con toda su fuerza y alma, puede ser un verdadero maestro. Por esta razón, ser maestro lo exige todo de una persona».

What's the point of living in comfort if it comes at the cost of your dreams?

El que suda más en la práctica, sangra menos en la guerra».

You who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; you

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

Albert Camus dijo una vez que «la verdadera generosidad para con el futuro consiste en entregarlo todo al presente».

Aquel que quiere conseguir poco debe sacrificar poco; aquel que quiere conseguir mucho debe sacrificar mucho; aquel que quiere conseguir el máximo debe sacrificarlo todo. JAMES ALLEN

It's better to die standing than live your whole life on your knees.

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

Health is the crown on the well person's head that only the ill person can see, you know? Or, as one tradition says, when we are young we sacrifice our health for wealth and when we grow old and wise we realize what's most important—and become willing to sacrifice all our wealth for even one day of good health. You never want to be the richest person in the graveyard, you know.

Pride was a little thing to sacrifice if it would give him back the joy that had been taken away from him.

Eli shouted my name, and then his arounds were around me, and I reached for Adriane who held fast to a blistering, burning creature that once had been Max and somehow still breathed and stood and howled. Though he was now nothing but flame, a golem of fire, that lived only because he'd forgotten how to die.

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

Sense of sacrifice is good but only if you're sacrificing your own life; once you sacrifice another's life you've overstepped the mark.

The important thing, Father Pavel had said, is not our belief, but His grace. We refuse His gifts out of meanness, for we fear the cost of them. And yes, the cost is everything.

Children of married parents find a place in society already prepared for them, furnished by a regime of parental sacrifice, and protected by social norms. Take away marriage and you expose children to the risk of coming into the world as strangers.

First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serve a common cause which is greater than any one man. I believe that I serve such a cause, or I would not be doing it.

I was willing to die fighting, but it was senseless for all these men to go down with me. Perhaps my blood was tainted, despite my power over the Pattern. A true prince of Amber should have had no such qualms. I decided then that my centuries on the Shadow Earth had changed me, softened me perhaps, had done something to me which made me unlike my brothers.

Do you honestly think I am going to let you die? I need you-as many of you as I can save.

I eschewed shortcuts, for flashy shadow spanning helluns also have their price and I did not want to be all whacked out when I arrived.

The blow fell upon Jasra's jaw, and I barely managed to free Frakir in time to keep from being dragged backward with her into Luke's waiting arms.

I bowed and blew her a kiss as I stepped forward into Amber, leaving her to clutch at rainbows as I caught hold of Random's shoulder and staggered.

independence came at a high price: a debt with a payment schedule of hurt and regret.