Quotes About Sacrifice

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

I hate it when they say, ?He gave his life for his country.? They don?t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

This way of life is worth defending.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship.

He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.