Quotes About Sacrifice

Penelope found it hard to imagine her mother had once been so rebellious and gregarious she felt sorry for her having to choose between a career or a family which seemed terribly unfair

My father had a similar saying. He said that in heaven there's a huge cake reserved solely for married people who've never once regretted getting married. The cake's never been touched.

I adored my mother, but with a touching and fervent desire to leave her, never to see her again, to sacrifice her to God.

Women were always ready to give themselves over for love, when all the men really had to offer them was the word and not the meaning behind it.

Joe lulls the man into the afterlife, places his head gently on the ground, closes the lids over his empty eyes, retrieves his gun and continues to fight for a freedom he would never be fully entitled to.

MUTTER COURAGE Mir scheint, ich hab zu lang gehandelt.

Selflessness is a rare virtue, because it doesn't pay for itself.

Sventurata la terra che ha bisogno di eroi.

Sapete come si sviluppa la perla nell'ostrica? Un corpo estraneo insopportabile, per esempio un granello di sabbia, penetra dentro al guscio, e l'ostrica, per seppellire quel granello, secerne calce; e in questo processo rischia la morte. Allora, dico io, al diavolo la perla, purché l'ostrica resti sana!

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.

The Christian is taught to see in the bleeding Christ the victim slain in his own place; he himself should be hanging on that cross, agonised and dying; those nail-pierced hands ought to be his; the anguish on that face should be furrowed on his own; the weight of suffering resting on that bowed head should be crushing himself into the dust. In the simplest meaning of the words, Christ is the sinner's substitute, and on him the sin of the world is laid.

Laura knew the price of motherhood to be pain and responsibility; the reward, love and pride.

Being a Christ follower means being acquainted with sorrow. We must know sorrow to be able to fully appreciate joy. Joy costs pain, but the pain is worth it. After all, the murder had to take place before the resurrection

guess some folks is willin' to pay anything for hope.

Love is what you give and love is what you want and love is how you wait, but it doesn't save you

Love is what you give and love is what you want and live is how you wait, but it doesn't save you

Throughout her life, Henriette Wyeth has to decide: Love or work. Fidelity or freedom. Beauty or snark. East or west. Her father's daughter or her husband's wife. Her children's mother or her artist's heart—her palette or her paint, her feathers or her shells.

Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

The highest hope of Socrates' peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.