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Quotes About Sacrifice

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
~ Ernest Hemingway
All men know their children mean more than life.
~ Euripides
Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
~ Francis Bacon
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The cross of Christ is the response of God to men for belittling His name.
~ Matt Chandler
No man profiteth but by the loss of others.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A man often pays dear for a small frugality.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.
~ Henry Rollins
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
~ Andre Malraux
You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.
~ Anne Bronte
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.
~ Aristophanes
No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.
~ Art Buchwald
Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.
~ Bette Greene
Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.
~ C. S. Lewis
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.
~ Neil Lowe
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
~ Pope John Paul II
If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
~ Henrik Ibsen