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.

But when you cared about someone, you made sacrifices. You put their happiness first.

And those who will carefully study the so-called ‘Mosaic code’ contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that, though Jahveh’s prohibitions of certain forms of immorality are strict and sweeping, his...

It’s tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.

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.