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.

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was...

Selfish DreamscapesIf you have a dream, as you should, relish in being selfish about building every passionate aspect of it. The crowd of spectators and consumers will still be exactly where you left them… gossiping...

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes… The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it...

The Golds have everything, yet they demand sacrifices even from their own. This place is sick. This empire broken. It eats its kings, its queens, as hungrily as it does the paupers who mill its...

It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves...

We must be prepared for sacrifices,

This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever. Your mother and father and sisters and brothers, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins,...

To put others in front of ourselves is to put God in front of everything.

How often the priest had heard the same confession–Man was so limited: he hadn’t even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had...

Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.

[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in...

If you had to sacrifice three people to save six people, would you do it? I would—if the three were politicians and the six were teachers, inventors, artists, or anybody but lawyers, lobbyists, or central...

In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and...

We all of us die, Miss Smallwood,’ he interrupted. ‘But we don’t all of us make our lives count for something. How much better to die saving another soul than to stand safe on shore...

Sacrifice is the most beautiful situation and solution for all social problems

Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.

Serving others means being willing to make sacrifices for their good.

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.

Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance–a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late–and the real...

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.

You can’t hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I’m...

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Dedication requires sacrifice.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

You exalt me Bati,This is the message to the society,Brightest day demands struggling, suffering and sacrifice,heroic labor would suffice.

Significant change requires significant sacrifice.

I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.

Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but...

Don’t hate me forever, Arty,” whispered Holly. “I couldn’t bear that.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? – an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest...

Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery.

Tereza’s mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because...

[I]n Wahrheit ist es das Leben, das dem Leben gibt – während ihr, die ihr euch als Gebende fühlt, nichts anderes seid als Zeugen.

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a person is conquered by the fire of His gaze, no sacrifice seems too great to...

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

All great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

Love calls you to be silent when you want to speak, and to speak when you would like to be silent. Love calls you to act when you would really like to wait, and to...

I expect God to use me, not because of who I am but because of who Jesus is. Not because of what I’ve done, but because of what Jesus has done.

A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.

Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head...