Quotes About Sacrifice

Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].

A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years thee will I clean up after thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.'

My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.

THE SINGLE, INTEGRATED inner experience of caring for, respecting, and bonding to another is love. The object of your love is one whom you care about even more than you are concerned for your own self. You would do or give what the other needs without the slightest feeling that what you have done or given is a sacrifice at all. Those acts and gifts are the fulfillment of love, and life.

I have even heard holiness defined as the absence of self-interest.

BEFORE A PERSON gives up his portion in the next world for others, let's see if he is willing to forgo some of his share in this world for others. —RABBI YOSEF YOZEL HURWITZ, THE ALTER OF NOVARDOK (1849–1919)

But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven't any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn't face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go.

He died for the ungodly, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. There wasn't one lovely or good thing in any of us that could draw out love from the heart of a holy Savior—there was everything to repel. Yet the infinite God, the altogether lovely One, whose ideal of love surely is far beyond anything we could ever imagine, whose capacity for love is beyond our understanding altogether, He loved us and gave Himself for us.

Graham had this sinking feeling in his stomach. It felt like Paris all over again. If Lanie died this whole affair would blow up in his face. Hollywood would want a scapegoat, and he fit the bill to a T. His having tried to help wouldn't matter. The star machine would crucify him.

Michael Cullen talking to his mother) - You told me I never had a father, regretting such a stupid phrase when she replied: 'Who do you think you are, Jesus Christ? I'll get you a cross from Littlewoods if you like, or maybe I'll rent one for three days

That's the problem getting rich. You use up your whole life doing it. Just to sit up the front of the aeroplane.

The humorist George Ade once said, 'Don't pity the martyrs, they love the work.

While generosity is about more than just money, bear in mind that the idea of it is really based not so much on what you give but rather what you have left after you give.

Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything

Such was the nature of obsessions: no quarter given for the human cost.

That's what love is – sacrifice. Sacrificing everything ...

Personal interests have no importance compared to national interests.

It's sad that in the struggle for my country's freedom, I have lost my personal freedom.

Obviously I have personal goals in my mind, but I put the team first.

I don't have a personal life. Whatever I have is for the country and society.

Once you become an actor, you have to say goodbye to your personal life.

TV is really, really, really hard work. You sacrifice a lot of your personal life, a lot of your sanity, just to do one show.