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.

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.

I could die a million times if my death would be the reason our love would live forever.

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

…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

Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

I’m going to be with the Lord.”I wished I shared his confidence. For him, it was a priceless thing no one could take. I wished the fear of death was like the fear of a...

noble” – be willing to someday join a larger conversation about how we might work together as a society to construct a world where healthy children can be raised and healthy families can prosper without...

How could you…? How?””Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your lead.” …He is really going through with it.”No,” She managed. “There is no other way.

Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. “I’ve only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing.I’m utterly lost. And you are needed here.” Zsadist tried to reach out, but...

We’d like to think that it is not our fault that great men and women died fighting for the security of our nation and safety of our communities. But we know this not to be...

Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing...

Jesus teaches us to give richly, serve sacrificially, and love unconditionally.

I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.

Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn’t it? They...

If you can’t handle others’ disapproval, then leadership isn’t for you.

This year our Memorial Day activities are especially poignant as “The Greatest Generation” joins us to dedicate the World War II Memorial on the grounds of the National Mall in Washington, DC The World War...

You won’t become what you want to be, else you become what you fear to be.

Following Jesus isn’t something you can do at night where no one notices. It’s a twenty-four-hour-a-day commitment that will interfere with your life. That’s not the small print—that’s a guarantee.

A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time’s records before long.

People love super heroes. It’s true we’re impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn. But the fact is, villains possess these same qualities. So why our admiration for the hero...

Ashlei was free to spout off how much she loved her savior because Jesus was not about to rear back and tell her He did not quite feel the same way, that He had died...

Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless.

I’m disappointed . . . that the president has not done more to demand that Congress and other federal agencies make the same sacrifices millions of Americans are already making. There is no charity without...

Good leaders sacrifice for others to survive; bad leaders sacrifice others to survive

I don’t want to sacrifice myself for something. I don’t want do DIE for something. I don’t even want to walk in the rain up a hill in a skirt that’s sticking to my thighs...

Jace: Herondale, on the other hand, is melodic. Dulcet, one might say. Think of the sound of ‘Clary Herondale.’Clary: Oh, my god, that sounds horrible.Jace: We all must sacrifice for love.

A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.

I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we’ve given it away.

You’d think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him,” said Miss Hillyard. “It didn’t pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour...

Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by...

She had been wrong in thinking Christ had been called up against his will to fight in a war. He didn’t look – in spite of the crown of thorns – like someone making a...

For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It’s not negotiable.

What about you?You stay by my side day and night and take the hardest hits of them all.Why,Will?Why have you stayed with me all these centuries?You watch me die again and again,yet you never leave....

Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the Age of Intellect is the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve the problems of the world. Even on the low level of practical...

I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family’s had to suffer for that, that I haven’t...

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

Macromanage, Not Micromanage

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

If blood can produce money through rituals or the so-called human sacrifice, then it is the basis on which we live, so it is very essential to save and protect it from the fiendish eyes...

Mom’s eyes held yours for a moment. ‘I don’t like or dislike the kitchen. I cooked because I had to. I had to stay in the kitchen so you could all eat and go to...

I see a girl, soon to be a woman,” Tibb continues. “The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it...

It’s not easy to be God.

No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider