Quotes About Sacrifice

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

Blood was shed that you three might breathe the good air of life, and if that means you have to miss out on a Zibzy game, then so be it. Part of being a man is putting others' needs before your own.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

I would give you everything of myself. I would give you more in two weeks than most men would give you in a lifetime.

The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea

I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.