Quotes About Sacrifice

El resto de nosotros, es decir, los seres anónimos, parecemos ser en el mejor de los casos objetos de la historia sin saberlo, peones de una partida de ajedrez que se desplazan hacia delante, se dejan en su sitio, se sacrifican o son abatidos y cuya vida, si es que la tienen, transcurre en un mundo totalmente distinto, sin la más mínima relación con lo que les sucede sobre el tablero de ajedrez que ocupan.

Están pasando por alto el hecho de que el beneficio que le reporta tanto a una nación como a una persona la conquista del mundo entero es mínimo si eso va en perjuicio de su alma y, al mismo tiempo, obvian que no sólo están sacrificándose a sí mismos en favor de su patriotismo (o lo que sea), sino también a su país.

The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another's lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.

How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice? How do you become a man in a world that doesn't require courage?

The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive.

Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.

The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

What sort of woman would do that—give up her life so easily, sacrificing her freedom for her father's? The Beast wondered if he was capable of such a sacrifice. He wondered if he was capable of love.

Belle, so brave and noble—willing to take her father's place as a prisoner in the castle dungeon. What sort of woman would do that—give up her life so easily, sacrificing her freedom for her father's?

Don't forget, Beast, true love, both given and received, before the last petal falls.

Only one thing comforted him: he had finally learned what it was to love. And the feeling was deeper and more meaningful than anything he'd felt before. He felt like he was dying. To die, one must have first been alive. And the Beast could finally say that by finding love, he had lived.

What if every time you fought for love, you were fighting for the whole world? For the whole world - not against the whole world.

And no doubt you're quite happy for her to slave away at the cooker, wash the nappies, get no sleep for nights on end

By oppression's woes and pains, By your sons in servile chains, We will drain our dearest veins But they shall be free! Robert

What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?

pero lo cierto es que sólo se va quien no tiene nada que perder

Words are the residue that I was there, that I loved my wife, that I kissed my children goodnight, that I sacrificed my life for them. Words are a curse. Life is a curse. Words escape life. Life escapes words. What in God's name am I? How does someone name a God? What is it to name yourself?

Freedom is only available through Death!

Look at anybody you admire — from Mother Teresa to Nelson Mandela — and you'll find that their life was filled with great pain. You'll also see that they met the deep challenge of that pain with love. In so doing, they found the call that defined their lives.

Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.

My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.