#sacrifice

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#heroism #i #idea #know #lives

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle. ↗

— John B. Hood

#battle #brave #engaged #ever #fearful

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

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#love #sacrifice #love

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#life #love #self-sacrifice #life

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. ↗

— James Allen

#achieve #attain #greatly #highly #little

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#elect #everywhere #exists #generation #rest

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#great #great souls #law #never #passion

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#college #education #excellent #existence #financial

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#curious #die #free #get #individual