If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

Bring it on, I can take whatever you can dish out.” I need to keep living in order to save my daughter from dying.

Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace.

Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything…away.

The prideful man qualifies himself by what people think of him, always looking for applause. There is another proud man; head bloodied by the world but eyes focused on what is good, never caring about...

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

…We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle… nor its price.

Dream × Vision × Time(sacrifices) × Work(persistence) = SuccessIf you miss any of them, remember any sum/number multiplied by zero is = 0Like·Comment·Share

My god, they’re everywhere.

Abdication Isn’t Empowerment

He is saying: let’s not condemn them because these people are making a major sacrifice to protect their country,

If you already have a person’s love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.

All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so...

If I’m somebody that says the team is important and the players and coaches need to sacrifice and I then see an opportunity to help the football team and don’t do it — I would...

Nothing is for free, even in heaven.

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was...

Selfish DreamscapesIf you have a dream, as you should, relish in being selfish about building every passionate aspect of it. The crowd of spectators and consumers will still be exactly where you left them… gossiping...

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes… The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it...

The Golds have everything, yet they demand sacrifices even from their own. This place is sick. This empire broken. It eats its kings, its queens, as hungrily as it does the paupers who mill its...

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

God knows we’re all drawn toward what’s beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it’s only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the...

A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

To strategize a rescue mission irrefutably capable of saving every human being is leagues beyond our ability to comprehend, and enormous beyond any resource we possess to execute. And to embark upon just such a...

…no one has ever doubted you would die for those you love … the question then becomes would you live?

Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that,and...

Change comes with sacrifice… When you want to make a change you must be prepared to make a sacrifice of escaping the comfort zone!

I can’t – is sacrificing your potential…

When it comes to love, it’s always worth the sacrifice. Always.

He said, well you paid your money didn’t you? I said yes you did, but you still had to move back. He said, ‘I would sit anywhere I want to.’ I said you can say...

It took me a couple of months to realize I was in love with her. Well, probably not to realize it. More like to admit it. And when I did, I knew that was why...

Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.

Serving others means being willing to make sacrifices for their good.

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.

Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance–a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late–and the real...

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.

You can’t hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I’m...

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Dedication requires sacrifice.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves...

We must be prepared for sacrifices,

This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever. Your mother and father and sisters and brothers, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins,...

To put others in front of ourselves is to put God in front of everything.

How often the priest had heard the same confession–Man was so limited: he hadn’t even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had...

Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.

[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in...

If you had to sacrifice three people to save six people, would you do it? I would—if the three were politicians and the six were teachers, inventors, artists, or anybody but lawyers, lobbyists, or central...

In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and...