Quotes about Sacrifice

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Christians need jobs just like anybody else, but the years you spend as an undergraduate are like everything else in your life. They're not yours to do with as you please. They're Christ's.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment of tithes and offerings. I plead with youth to establish this habit while you are still young and to resolve to continue with it all the days of your lives.

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Brethren, let us mind our own business - that is, the calling the Lord has called us to - to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, 'What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?'

Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.