Quotes About Sacrifice

Sometimes you have to look at the greater good, no matter what the consequences to yourself might be.

by and large too many good soldiers get shot, and too few politicians.

Everything is on the table and nothing on the altar.

you know what the word 'Islam' means in Arabic, Mr. Mason?" ?"Subjugation." ?"Good." He nodded approval. "Very good. Islam is extraordinarily clever at making people feel good about being obedient. If I may paraphrase John, greater obedience hath no man than this, that he will lay down his life for his master.

A latte spurned is a fortune earned.

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.

Artists don't get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.

He lived the life he lived, like anybody, I guess, and he paid his dues, like everybody. Maybe what I mean when I say he made his life so hard was that he always tried to pay his dues in front.

The Christian life is not easy. No responsible person ever said it was. It is a battle all the way. But it is a battle that will be won. And when it is won, we who have triumphed will cast our crowns at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ, who worked in us to accomplish victory, and we will praise Him forever.

When I asked him, fifty-three years after the event, "Mr. Lucas, why did you jump on those grenades?" he did not hesitate with his answer: "To save my buddies.

The Flyboy who got away became president of the United States. What might have been for Warren Earl, Dick, Marve, Glenn, Floyd, Jimmy, the unidentified airman, and all the Others who had lost their lives?...And what might have been for those millions of doomed Japanese boys, abused and abandoned by their leaders? War is the tragedy of what might have been.

A rife platoon's] members must care for one another. Its leaders must cherish the men in very fire team and squad. For a rifleman, a leader's misjudgment, ignorance or inexperience can be fatal - no second chances. No rerunning the exercise until you get it right. When the word 'go' is given, there is no turning back from the consequences. It is the monstrous burden of command..." -Bernard "Mick" Trainor

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

So it was, your majesty, that I forever relinquished my sewing, and became a lovely peril, a flashing desolation, and an evil which smites by night, in spite of my abhorrence of irregular hours: and what I do I dislike extremely, for it is a sad fate to become a vampire, and still to sympathize with your victims, and particularly with their poor mothers.

In Jesus we hear God saying to us, "What you cannot do for yourself, I myself will do. Your sin stands between us, and you cannot remove it, so I will do it for you. My blood will cleanse your sins, and I will remember them no more. Nothing will stand between us. I will rise from the dead so that you can live. My love is too strong for death to conquer. Once alive, I will invite you to die and rise with me. Eternal life is now available. It is in my Son.

if today you sold everything you possessed and gave it to the poor, you would indeed take a huge economic hit. But you would survive. You'd collect your next paycheck.

I came across time for you, Sarah. I love you. I always have." Kyle Reese in The Terminator

Asceticism was not necessary for holiness.

live more humanly, bravely, and compassionately in such circumstances, mainly through a call to discipleship

Knowing that your love for someone else is real when you make the decision to let them go as their happiness is the only thing that matters to you