Quotes About Sacrifice

A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.

The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.

If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.

What the Anzac legend did do, by the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, was reinforce our own cultural notions of independence, mateship, and ingenuity. Of resilience and courage in adversity.

Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.

May God bless our troops.

I have performed for the troops... in Iraq! They loved it! I loved it... It's all good!

During a time of war, we ask our troops to give their best even to the point of sacrificing their own lives. When compared against that, how much of a sacrifice is it for a president to engage in a possibly contentious debate with Congress about whether military action is a good idea?

For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.

We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.

If there's one thing that unifies the nation in times of perpetual war it's the pledge to 'Support the Troops.'

You don't eat before your troops eat, and you don't ask your troops to do anything you won't do, too.

We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill.

Sometimes when troops are overseas working these incredibly long hours in a difficult situation, they're not always hearing how much they're appreciated.

In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.

I personally was involved in going over to Afghanistan to meet the troops. My father was a marine, so that was just amazing.

Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.

I have so much respect for our troops.

It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.

I gave away most of my trophies, put away the plaques.

Too many times I have had to sacrifice a trophy or the chance of winning one because the owners have said you have to stay in the Premier League at all costs.