#sacrifice

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. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#always #argentina #changed #did #dream

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband. ↗

— Pat Nixon

#career #consider #everything #husband #i

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do. ↗

— Brandy Norwood

#had #i #knew #make #sacrifice

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#basic #comforts #country #difficult #difficult time

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#bitter #faith #into #life #long

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times. ↗

— Patti Smith

#difficult #difficult times #even #good #good news

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice. ↗

— Robert Smith

#cry #else #god #i #inside

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

— Henry Taylor

#essence #generosity #gives #readily #sacrifice

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#like #moral #moral authority #sacrifice

Juliet had it easy; she never had to kill Romeo. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose #vampire-academy #sacrifice