Quotes about Sacrifice
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.
— J. Oswald Sanders
It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
— John Eldredge
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
— Theodore Roosevelt
From the Book of Mormon we learn how disciples of Christ live in times of war.
— Ezra Taft Benson
There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.
— John Piper
Wage war on death. Live for love.
— Ted Dekker
One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.
— Thomas Jefferson
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.
— Paulo Coelho
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
— Joseph Campbell
God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.
— Charles Stanley
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower