Quotes About Sacrifice

I took a back seat and did whatever it took for the team to win.

Everybody always asks me about carries, what I thought about it, how I felt, but when you got teammates like that who love you and care for you, it don't matter how you feel or how bad it hurts, you've got to make sure you're making those guys happy by helping them win, getting a victory.

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I've been to three World Championships... so I think it's like a win-win.

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.

All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.

Nobody wants to sell their child, but what they wind up doing is selling their child to be able to support their family.

If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the strugglings of Humanity to be free, then let the Church fall and its fragments be scattered to the four winds of Heaven, never more to curse the earth.

The path of royal romance has never been smooth; Princess Margaret was unable to marry the man she loved because it meant renouncing her royal status, yet her uncle, the Duke of Windsor, gave up an empire for Wallis Simpson.

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.

I had to give up a lot of foods that I'm accustomed to eating: dairy products, beer, wine, spicy food.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

There's no shortcuts to winning. You have to be willing to pay the price and be willing to sacrifice.

While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege.

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.

When 'Animals' released, I still had one year left in school, so it was, like, super weird. I had number one in the U.K., and I would still go to school five days a week. They made, like, a schedule when I could tour and when I had to be home for tests. But my team made it happen. My parents, they helped as well.

Each day in Texas, heroes risk their lives to protect ours.

I've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a job - I think that's really helped me feel very grateful to have a job, even when I have a call time of 3:30 A.M. My mom laughs when I text at 4 A.M saying, 'I love my job.'