Sacrifice Quotes

"You learn how to take sacrifices, you learn to give things up to get into something you're trying to get into."

"When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working."

"I give my all to this career and to this life and I've sacrificed a lot of things that a lot of people aren't willing to do."

"My life is so full of sacrifices."

"It costs you something to do good!"

"My mom sacrificed a lot for me."

"For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield."

"I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me."

"Twice I had to sell my house to pay my employees' salary."

"America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs."

"My goal was like to play in the NBA. I didn't want to leave my country, my people, my friends - even my school."

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."

"Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything."

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."

Douglas MacArthur

"When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today."

John Maxwell Edmonds

"We are the Dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, loved and were loved, and now we lie in Flanders fields."

John McCrae

"These heroes are dead. They died for liberty – they died for us."

Robert G. Ingersoll

"Give me blood, and I will give you freedom!"

Subhas Chandra Bose

"If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England."

Rupert Brooke

"Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie."

Simonides

"Here dead we lie because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung."

A. E. Housman

"Pluck me, O gardener, and cast me on the path where many brave ones walk to offer their heads for the motherland."

Makhanlal Chaturvedi

"Went the day well? We died and never knew. But, well or ill, Freedom, we died for you."

John Maxwell Edmonds

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."