Quotes About Sacrifice

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

His was the nation's sacrifice, And ours the priceless gain.

"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,But spare your country's flag," she said.

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

To Fran, for choosing me over a rich guy.

Then let me tell you a thing I've learned in my eighty-nine years. This house, the friends and memories—I'd trade it all for a chance to do what that young woman just did: a noble act, freely undertaken. How many of us have such a chance? And how many the courage to take it?

An old man was dying, and when he was dead, they would come for Michael; and they would come for her, to make Michael hurt. Elena knew none of this, neither the things of which he was capable nor the danger he'd brought to her door; but Michael would go to hell to keep her safe. Go to hell. Come back burning.

We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful.

You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

Faith, without action, is no faith at all. Love, without sacrifice, is no love at all.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

Yes, people of Hiroshima died manly in the atomic bombing, believing that it was for Emperor's sake.

Hold their noses to grindstone.

That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.

For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.

During the eighteen months that followed Halley's visit, Isaac worked day and night on the book. He didn't mind the sacrifice. A living, growing thing took shape before his eyes. Never mind that he ate irregularly. Never mind if he kept at it eighteen hours a day. The book would be worth all the effort.

God and the soldier We like adore In times of danger Not before

TO THE FALLEN Sleep my sons, your duty done For Freedom's light has come. Sleep in the silent depths of the sea Or in your bed of hallowed sod Until you hear at dawn the low, Clear reveille of God.

You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving.

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.