Quotes About Sacrifice

On December 15th, 1971, Tiger Niazi surrendered to Sam Manekshaw;

A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.

He was her warrior to be loved and waited for and she would take what little of him she could get and wait for the rest.

and she went on loving him, even though he had so casually abandoned her. You were my everything, she wanted to say to him, you were my sun and moon, and who will hold my head now, who will kiss my lips, who will be a father to our children, but he was a great man destined for the halls of the immortals, and these squalling brats were no more than the jetsam he let in his wake.

his mother going out to work while his father sat hidden behind the veil which the stroke had dropped over his brain …

but something was given in exchange for what was lost

I am being flayed,' he told her in his dream. 'It is my holy calling. We will never gain our humanity until we lose our skins.

Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least.

A bordélynegyed szívében pedig ismét felbukkantak a táncoló medvék és a törpe zsonglÅ'rök, az egyenruhába öltöztetett majmok, akiket arra idomítottak, hogy meghaljanak a hazáért.

Amikor az ember a lehetetlenre vállalkozik, mindennap a halállal utazik, megtisztulásnak, a lélek felemelkedésének fogadja el az utazást, s így az út nem az istenek megnevezése, hanem maga Isten felé tart.

Ellos hasta le contaban sus sueños, aunque muy pocos soñaban más de una vez al mes, porque eran muy pobres para permitirse esos lujos.

I will learn that the deepest meaning of love is renunciation, giving up one's own dream to fulfill the dream of the beloved.

This is who we are. We sail away from the place we love and then because we aren't there to love it people go with axes and burning torches and smash and burn and then we say, Oh, too sad. But we abandoned it, left it to our barbarian successors to destroy.

when he took his stand on the draft, refusing to go to 'Nam, sacrificing his title, risking jail, putting it all on the line for a principle, he became, well, awesome. In those days the word still meant what it was supposed to mean, "inspiring great admiration/awe," and Ali did that.

how he was going to die for his verses, but could not find it in himself to call the death-sentence unjust.

When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen.

Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea of what we could give or receive.

football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.

Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.