#sacrifice

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#dinner #gesture #governor #i #iraq

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#defense #defense budget #gestures #gratitude #hearts

Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#court #democracy #died #dies #injected

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. ↗

— John Green

#american #because #disease #epic #family

You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#find #make #mother #really #sacrifices

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#admiration #ahead #criticism #get #get married

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

— Napoleon Hill

#born #great #great achievement #never #result

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#form #self-sacrifice

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#god #knowledge #make #only #redemptive

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#commerce #conscience #happiness #humanity #knowledge