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Quotes About Sacrifice

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
~ Henry Fielding
I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.
~ Honore de Balzac
Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
~ James G. Frazer
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
During war we imprison the rights of man.
~ Jean Giraudoux
History is littered with dead good men
~ Joe Abercrombie
To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.
~ John Owen
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
~ Joseph Heller
The battlefield is cold... it is the lonesomest place which men share together.
~ Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.
~ Stefan Zweig
Service to man is service to god
~ Swami Vivekananda
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.
~ Walt Disney
Old men make war, young men fight and die
~ Winston Churchill
He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.
~ Claude C. Hopkins
We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.
~ David McMurtrie Gregg
Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.
~ George R. R. Martin
Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.
~ George S. Patton
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
~ Albert Camus, The Fall
Love a man who'll bleed to make a point. (Candy)
~ Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
~ Ernest Renan
More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.
~ Steve Buyer