Quotes About Sacrifice

If you want to run for president, you better be an athlete. It's 24/7. It never ends. You give up your personal life completely and you have something of a chance to be shot.

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

Most people that commit to a life of celibacy weren't leaving that much on the table in the first place.

My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.

I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.

Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.

You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.

When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.

Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life.

Will we ever understand the price of ambition, or ever apply our heart to life with submission?

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.

But everything you do in life has a downside.

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.

The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They're gonna get divorced a few times, they're gonna be addicted to things, they're gonna be in therapy.