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.

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.

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...

Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace.

…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

No it was my choice. It’s what I wanted to do. And I knew they’d probably send me to Iraq. It’s not like anybody lied to me.”She groans. “Billy, all these mofos ever do is...

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.

If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as...

Wakati mwingine inaweza kuonekana kuwa kadiri unavyozidi kujitolea kwa ajili ya watu wengine ndivyo unavyozidi kuwa maskini, lakini hii si kweli. Huduma kwa ajili ya watu wengine huleta maana fulani na ukamilifu katika maisha yetu...

Oh I know it’s cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk’ve ever been

There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.

Grace gives without with-holding even when the receiver is not aware of its sacrifices

you wouldn’t have that problem if you stopped convincing yourself of stupid things.

He truly has the stars at his paws now. You will see him again, when it is time.

Is there a definition of a truly good person? …. Many say that “Nice guys finish last”, that “kindness is weakness”, and so on. To those of you who are told “Your too nice” or...

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.

Be Chris LeDoux, Not Garth Brooks

For many, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime, long dreamed-of and longed-saved-for trip. Pennies have been pinched and sacrifices made to make the vacation a reality. All Guests’ wallets will be separated from a great deal of money,...

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.

Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all these things, they are not satisfied. They realize happiness is not simply having...

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one’syouthful ideals.

Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one’s persona.

. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other’s throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of...

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery,...

Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero.

I dedicate this soul; I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice to them. Bowing low, I fall at the Feet of the Lord.

Al Gore Jr. acted with honor and conviction in volunteering for service in a war he despised. … To save the seat of his father — a political warrior in the cause of peace —...

Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time, our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what we give, but for the sake of...

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of...

Come on. We must have a little pity. Do you know what we’re talking about now?…When a man supports his relatives by his labor, he has no right to sacrifice himself. That is deserting his...

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

You are too timid for me. You care too much about what other people think. But you know what? Because you are so desperate to win the approval of others, you’ll never get rid of...

By so giving up, of course, it renews itself- that is the secret

Perfect crime,’ he said softly. ‘Yes?’ ‘Persuade an innocent, idealistic young girl that the future of the human race depends on her sacrificing her own life. She will come into hospital as trustingly as a...

Sometimes, even pretty simple situations can become tough, when the thing you love the most and the thing you have to sacrifice is the same.

Home is our greatest place of trials.

…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be...

Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas’s best friend.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

All the world seemed suddenly dream, for in what waking world would a prince deceive his own people for the benefit of a slave? ~ Ayden

What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it’s dearness only that gives everthing its value.

France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.

Lots of folks want success without sacrifice. Life doesn’t work that way. Be willing to pay the price for your dreams.