Quotes About Sacrifice

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

I love my country enough to suffer its wrath.

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.

Forest who is in love with fire will wear black wedding gown in her wedding!

To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?

Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.

You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight.

Love, for me, is always wanting the best for the other person even if it's not what's best for you.

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but.

marriage is a great strain upon love.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

I knew that anything we do to show love is worthwhile: a smile, a word of encouragement, a small act of sacrifice. We grow by these actions.

I know the heart of womenkind, and none do willingly yield their lives.

Most people think they want Main Streets but won't make the small sacrifices in terms of time, cost, and footpower necessary to sustain them. The sad fact is that we have created a culture in which most people will happily-indeed, unthinkingly-drive an extra couple of miles to walk thirty less feet.

Mrs. Mendeleyev hitchhiked with young Dmitri four thousand miles to St. Petersburg—that's equivalent to travelling from London to Equatorial Guinea—and deposited him at the Institute of Pedagogy.

Boys normally attended the school for seven or eight years, beginning at the age of seven. The schoolday was long and characterized by an extreme devotion to tedium. Pupils sat on hard wooden benches from six in the morning to five or six in the evening, with only two short pauses for refreshment, six days a week.

According to one survey, half of people under the age of thirty said they would sacrifice their sense of smell rather than part with a favored electronic device.

pyrrhic victory is not, as is sometimes thought, a hollow triumph. It is one won at a huge cost to the victor.

Would Giovanni da Verrazano think being eaten by cannibals a reasonable price to pay for having his name attached to a toll bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island? I suspect not.

Mark was still explaining. "You see, what it does is this: it gives violence a purpose. It makes us somebody. Because we're not doing it for ourselves. We're doing it for something greater—for us. The violence is for the lads.