Quotes About Sacrifice

Sometimes you make a sacrifice for what you believe,even if it hurts you your whole life.

Kids are a huge sacrifice they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love...

Part of growing up is doing things you don't want to do. When it's in the best interest of someone you love.

I didn't like to hurt the children anymore, so I said, 'I will serve you no longer.' Then all of a sudden he looks like a man and threatens to hurt me. When he was like a man, he had a yellow bird he kept with him, and he told me he had more pretty things that he would give me if I would serve him.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

It's said that every man has his price, my prince," Morgan said. "Some are simply too high to be met." "And is yours that high?" Duncan faltered just an instant in his ministrations, but Morgan merely smiled. "High enough that no man could ever pay it but you, my prince," he replied without hesitation. "I am your man, as I was your father's before you. You have bought me with your love. Nor can I ever be resold.

Comme disait El-Hallâj : «Que nul ne boive le vin s'il n'est pas un héros ; s'il n'a abandonné le sommeil, et que ses paupières ne se ferment plus. » L'énigme du Soufisme, c'est qu'on désigne la chose par le prix qu'elle vaut ; que la valeur céleste s'exprime en termes de sacrifices terrestres.

She knew we were poor though she didn't say anything. She used to say, "Mom, I'm not a good daughter because you have to spend so much money for my sickness…" I'm sure sure she had many things she wanted to buy as a teenager such as new clothes, but she didn't say anything to me and kept it to herself because she knew we were poor.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

To be a true hero you must be a true Christian. To sum up then, heroism is largely based on two qualities- truthfulness and unselfishness, a readiness to put one's own pleasures aside for that of others, to be courteous to all, kind to those younger than yourself, helpful to your parents, even if helpfulness demands some slight sacrifice of your own pleasure. . .you must remember that these two qualities are the signs of Christian heroism.

God is asking for that abandonment of man to Himself which says, "We pour all at Thy feet, and if Thou shouldst crown us, we would rejoice, but only that a crown was ours to cast at the feet of Christ." When men reach that point, greed has gone out of their service.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Negotiation scholars have observed this phenomenon so often we have a name for it: "escalation of commitment." People lose sight of their real goals in competitive situations and pay far too much money, spend too much time, or sacrifice too many other interests for the privilege of saying they have won.

The key to a minimalist budget is looking for sacrifices within your current expenses to save money.

His father had been so seriously wounded, at Vimiera, that he was invalided home and placed on half pay; and in the same battle Captain O'Grady lost his left arm but, on its being cured, returned to his place in the regiment.

The money might pay for food and shelter and clothes, but money cannot buy love, and that is what you gave, both of you; and it is for that that we now pay as well as we can.

If a man has any genuine talent he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

Poetry is more valuable than cricket, but Bradman would be a fool if he sacrificed his cricket in order to write second-rate minor poetry (and I suppose that it is unlikely that he could do better).

The proof is by reductio ad absurdum, and reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons5. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

The highest aim and the meaning even of human life is to strive to do your best for the wellbeing of your neighbour, which is only possible by renouncing your own self-interest.