Quotes About Sacrifice

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis

This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.

Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!

I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.