He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his...

Be a Strong Leader, Even If You Follow a Weak Leader

I haven’t had a family, but I don’t think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

I’ve seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I’ve seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of...

I adore the ocean and its vastness, as if it is trying to teach me something, as if it is trying to teach me to remain calm whatever the situation maybe. It holds such a...

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone’s world. That’s why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit’s. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is...

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

Amin, you’re not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don’t believe in the salvation of others?

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love… That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who...

If the current group prepare as well as the side did last year and give the same amount of sacrifice, then we’ll be okay.

Tonight, he’d looked broken. She’d been afraid to touch him, as if one brush of skin would send him shattering into a million pieces. But then she had, and he’d clung to her as if...

A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.

Real accomplishments do virtually nothing to serve me and they do everything to serve others. Anything less is nothing more than a meaningless task dressed in the deceptive finery of accomplishments.

Nilijitolea sehemu ya maisha yangu ya kijamii na kifamilia kuweza kuchapisha Kolonia Santita katika kiwango nilichokitaka.

If we want to live perfectly happy lives…we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy and worry. When we learn to live selflessly, putting others before ourselves, committing...

The question is not how much work are you willing to put in, but what are you willing to take out? Success is sacrifice.

Cathy smiled back ‘Rules were meant to be broken.’‘Don’t disagree,’ Oversteegen replied immediately. ‘Indeed they are. Providin’, however, that the one breakin’ the rules is willin’ t’ pay the price for it, and the price...

I won’t sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That’s that.

I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so...

He remembered the darkness and despair she’d suffered during her long years as a prisoner, but he also recalled the deep, unquenchable joy she took from the world around her; and he knew that given...

What a short time I had been given to experience love. I felt as my life had only recently begun and now it would surely end at sunrise.

Für den Freigebigen ist die Suche nach einem, der empfangen soll, eine größere Freude als das Geben.

She was smiling as she imagined herself as one more star in the sea of millions, and her body decided it had had enough, and she felt the exact moment when her power source gave...

That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had...

When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it’s easy to be at war – not just to intervene in a foreign land in the first place, but to keep on fighting there. The...

You… can’t… have… my… son!” she screamed, and threw herself forward, pulling on the horn with all her strength. Torn from its perch, the demon took ribbons of flesh with it, as Kally flipped it...

Are you all right, Major? Why are you crying?

In order for you to receive, someone else has to give. That’s called sacrifice.

What can you do for love?Can you leave a person for love?Can you leave a country for love?I think I wouldn’t even leave my couch for love

Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?

We are about to sacrifice our civilization for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue to make enormous amounts of money. […] But it is the sufferings of the many which...

Let us not be like the forest fox foraging for food for itself forever!Let us be like the assiduous ant, always accumulating ample assets for all ants with altruism and all-round assistance.

The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life.Now, with the new feeling that had ripened in him, he became aware of another law: that we are given only...

I am a sacrifice to my True Guru. He shall not abandon me; He shall surely carry me across.

It would be quite a sacrifice for her, but she’s prepared to do it if she is asked, … By next June we’ll know a lot more about Judge Roberts … than we do today.

He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves.

It’s easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

True love is sacrifice. It is in giving, not in getting; in losing, not in gaining; in realizing, not in possessing, that we love!

In a brave and noble way, I want to sacrifice my life one day so that two of my clones can live.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is...

True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring.

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...

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.