Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. This cheap Christianity . . . offends nobody, requires no sacrifice, costs nothing, and is worth nothing!

Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.

It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles to be fought, sacrifices to be made, an Egypt to be forsaken, a wilderness to be passed through, a cross to be carried, a race to be run. Conversion is not putting a person in an arm-chair and taking them easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

You’ve been shot five times for your country, and you can’t even send your kids to college. If we’d accomplished have the things that we’ve accomplished in any other profession, we’d be set for life. The question is: Do we finally get to use our skills for our benefit?

Why would I accept to earn less money to play for Barcelona? Why are players the ones supposed to sacrifice themselves?

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a sou

My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for lov

There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and it has weakened me. But no more. Tonight I will once again feast on fear and suffering. My appetite for agony will be awakened. I will once again taste the pain of others. I will feast on the fear of the innocent, and that is the sweetest taste of all. Tonight I hunger for a sacrifice.

He harshly criticized Soviet tyranny, but lamented the fact that so many Americans were willing to sacrifice their civil liberties in the name of anticommunism.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice

It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in the name of security because of the dangerous state of affairs there. I will always be a strong supporter of Israel.

I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.

Success requires sacrifice and dedication.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, and on unselfish performance. Without them, it cannot live.

We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.

Sacrifices are not in vain. At the end, everything will pay off.

To win Olympic gold, it takes a lot of hard work, a lot of passion, and a lot of sacrifices.

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

There are no sacrifices in vain. There is a reward even for the effort to do good.

Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan’s altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The offering must be presented to some deity. Since God is pure and holy, and will accept nothing defiling in its character, He refuses this expensive, filthy, and unholy sacrifice therefore, we conclude that Satan is the one who claims the honor.

Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than anything else he can do, and that it would be silly if he surrendered any decent opportunity of exercising his one talent in order to do undistinguished work in other fields. Such a sacrifice could be justified only by economic necessity of age.

The cause of most of man’s unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

With the mindset that I give everything I’ve got for the man that’s next to me, not me, cause I know what I got while I’m by myself, but when I step on the field, when I step on the turf, what am I willing to sacrifice?

Everything I got, I’m willing to sacrifice.

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

At the heart of our faith stand not a preoccupation with our own welfare and comfort but the concepts of service and of sacrifice as shown in the life and teachings of the one who made himself nothing, taking the very form of a servant.

Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I’ve grown up with is tough but also very freeing.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

What surprises me most is “Man” because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he doesn’t enjoy the present; The result being he doesn’t live in the present or the future; He lives as if he’s never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.

If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient – at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

Selfish — a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

I’ll die for stifled love, by all that’s true.

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which have cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

One of the worst days in America’s history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans’ history. We’ll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.

They sacrifice all the rest, devote all their efforts, make everything else subservient to the pursuit of some phantom.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain

You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

He who would sacrifice his life for others has hardly time to reserve for himself a place in the sun.

The roots of violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles.

Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.

So we know that human nature, and that includes our nature, yours and mine, can very easily turn people into quite efficient torturers and mass-murderers and slave-drivers…To the extent that the statement is true, and there is such an extent, it’s just not relevant: human nature also has the capacity to lead to selflessness, and cooperation, and sacrifice, and support, and solidarity, and tremendous courage, and lots of other things too.

I already won but it came with biggest loses I ever had.

Don’t tell me that you love me if you ain’t gone die for me.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and never the result of selfishness.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

When you win so long, so much, you forget — you think your name will win. You forget the sacrifices, the work that goes into winning.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

Had to sacrifice my life just for my mom and kids

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day

I’ve gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

I made sacrifices leaving Argentina, leaving my family to begin a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for soccer, to achieve my dream

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

For me, being Mom in Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

My life is like a dream, but I’m still here when I wake. I’m gon’ get everything I need, I’ll do whatever it takes.

Hopefully the sacrifices we making today can change tomorrow.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

This is why I didn’t go out to parties and many other things. I am successful because I made sacrifices for success.

Always chase your dreams no matter what.

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.

The best come from the worst.

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.