Quotes About Sacrifice

When your economy is not growing that fast, everybody's got to bite the bullet.

I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole.

Respect the burden.

I'm the guy that's always defusing everything and taking the burden off a lot of people and letting everything fall onto me. Obviously, I'm built to handle it, and I don't mind doing it.

I had to burn all of my non-Christian records.

I grew up drumming but had to put it on the back burner because of basketball.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

I can't do something that I would not throw myself under a bus for.

My brother-in-law skipped work to get me to training. Our family get us through. We'd get the train, a bus and sometimes even walk to training.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

My parents fled from a Cuban dictatorship in search of freedom. Growing up, I saw my parents struggle... I am here today because of them. My success is their success. Their sacrifice and perseverance made my education possible.

Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester.

And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.

I tell everybody on the first day of making a movie that if anyone's here to further their career, they should leave. I'm gonna make the movie in such a way that we won't have a career when this movie comes out. Because the people who hold the moneybags are not going to want to share any of that money with us to make the next movie!

Going from toting a machine gun in Afghanistan... to using a bed pan, and I can't even put my own socks on - that was hard to kind of suck it up.

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

When you're in Ranger School, it sucks. You're not eating; you're not sleeping. You're marching miles - for months at a time. It's horrible.

I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.

I think I'm an extremely good mother. I know I'm an extremely good mother. But I didn't realise how much it sucks out of you.

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.