#sacrifice

People love super heroes.  It's true we're  impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn.  But the fact is, villains possess these same qualities.  So why our admiration for the hero and not the nemesis?  Because of virtue.   A super hero gives everything to defend what's good and right without seeking praise or reward.  Think about it.  All the great heroes give without taking; help without grumbling; sacrifice without asking recompense.  A super hero's real strength, what we absolutely fall in love with, is his finer virtue. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hero #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sacrifice #super-hero

The sun loved the moon so much he died every night so she could breathe. ↗

— Unknown

#devotion #love #moon #sacrifice #sun

All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices. ↗

— Louis Zamperini

#life #sacrifices #young-people #life

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#caring-for-others #caring-loved-one #illness #parenting #sacrifice

There are four things you need to know about war. One, every action requires careful tactics. Two, never lose hope and fight only for what is right. Three, be brave but you don't have to be fearless. And four, be willing to sacrifice. ↗

— Courtney Allison Moulton

#careful #right #sacrifice #war #fearless

On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves. We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles - whatever one may choose to call them - we know: the best of us did not return. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#honor #morality #sacrifice #survival #war

Sacrifice without sweat is a double appearance, but only half an illusion. People think you've done good, but they know you look good. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #sacrifice #funny

My spouse makes a lot of sacrifices for me. I've devoted all of myself to her, and she lops me off one piece at a time in tribute to her pagan love deity. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #marriage #sacrifice #funny

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #effort #eliminate #growing #growing up

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#caring #discipline #freedom #love #people