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

But they gave me Finn. He said it like maybe it was worth the trade. Like it was something he would do again if he had the choice. Like he would take a man’s legs...

Love is about giving, about caring for the other person’s welfare. Love is treating someone, in the Kantian sense, never as a means but as an end in themselves. Love is sacrifice, love is something...

Kiss me?

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we...

You didn’t judge my past. That’s when I knew I couldn’t turn away from you even if I tried…

Is there a defense? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have — and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined — not to want to save you more...

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little...

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora–bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of...

When Peter renounced the world he grew up in and the people he grew up with, I believe it was exactly as heroic as that of a person who, finding himself prone to violent seasickness,...

Anon from the castle wallsThe crescent banner falls,And the crowd beholds instead,Like a portent in the sky,Iskander’s banner fly,The Black Eagle with double head;And a shout ascends on high,For men’s souls are tired of the...

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

And home the ships sailing send.

Show Us, Don’t Tell Us

It is not sacrifice if you love what you’re doing.

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he’s willing to sacrifice for the group.

For a thought to manifest on the earth realm, a sacrifice must occur.

There is but one task for all –One life for each to give.What stands if Freedom fall?”[For All We Have and Are]

It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care...

Sacrifice is sweeter than engagement…

Huge difference between being happy at will, and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. One doesn’t cost a dime, the other will tax your soul.

The men stop coming after Hunt goes missing. We learned from the last brave soul to visit that they whispered all sorts of stories to answer his disappearance. My favorite is that we ate him....

Stained-glass windows glowed faintly in the moonlight streaming through, illuminating the sculpture of Christ on the cross that hung above the altar. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Then the sculpture...

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She’s earned it, it’s a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her...

People with passion are people who will destroy – for a man’s passion is not true until he proves how much he’s willing to sacrifice for it.

A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.

I am thankful that sacrifice is non-negotiable, and that counting the cost in giving to another is foolishly assuming that we can put a price on sacrifice.

Silaha kuu ya uchoyo ni kujitolea kwa ajili ya watu wengine. Ni upendo.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can’t find in an army without morale.

The more we have of Jesus, the greater the love we have; the greater the love, the greater the sacrifice; the greater the sacrifice, the more we become like Jesus; the more we become like...

Penance is a sacrifice, a voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self-inflicted suffering. For some, the ultimate penance is death. But for others, it simply...

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

We are as the dead,” Sha said. “Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And, when it is necessary, to surrender those lives. When we become what we are,...

Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead’st thou that heifer lowing at the skiews, And all her silken flanks with garlands dressed? What little town by river...

Adversity Isn’t to Be Avoided

People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human – in the fact that so much of what we...

As usual, he saves his wife’s for last. He leans on the cane and he looks at the headstone and he thinks about many things. Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take...

Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.

Even after making up one’s mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy