Sacrifice Quotes

“Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.”

“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”

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

“I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.”

“Every once in a while I think, "What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?"

“I'm the one who has made all the sacrifices. Those are my American records, not the country's.”

“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

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

“I can be a friend from a million miles away. I can play basketball in China. The only thing I can't do is be a father. I missed my kids' first basketball game. I missed birthdays.”

“Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.”

“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”

“I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.”

“When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.”

“If the team needs you, you need to sacrifice.”

“I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times.”

“When I was 5, my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. Like so many mothers, she worked around the clock to make it work.”

“Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet.”

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.”

“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.”

“I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.”

“I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.”

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

“I had to sacrifice to leave my family. Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.”

“I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.”