I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I’ve done it with ‘Pawn Sacrifice.’
Eileen Gu, I think, has had to sacrifice her American passport. So welcome to China. I hope stardom and the riches that you have earned through betraying America are all worth it, because you have definitely sold out.
Many gave their lives – the ultimate sacrifice – to defend the United States.
My Tarkovsky idolatry was at its peak, but ‘Nostalghia’ really didn’t do anything for me. ‘The Sacrifice’ was similarly disappointing for me. Next thing we knew, he was dead.
This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I’m not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.
Every day, at the end of the day, I ask myself, ‘Am I living my life worthy of the sacrifice and commitment the people who went before me made on my behalf?’
Even coming from Ghana to the United States, my mom and dad did so much to provide a better life for their kids. It was such a huge sacrifice; leaving your entire family – and we have a huge family – leaving them to come to America and have a better life for their kids.
Those who sacrifice for the good of this nation are not simply a resource to be utilized and cast aside.
I’m a human sacrifice. I put myself out there for the people, and hopefully they take the good and the positivity from that.
I think there are a lot of people who are afraid to be who they are, and if I have to sacrifice a little bit of fame and a little bit of success because I’m being 100 percent truthful with who I am, hopefully that will create a paved way for someone else.
Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.
You’ve got a guy sitting in a big house, making $5 million a year, saying he does not want to sacrifice his time. That is not a kindred spirit to me.
Sacrifice is the 1.3 million active duty men and women in the U.S. military and 800,000 reserve forces who volunteer to keep us safe and defend our way of life.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
I’m happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that’s not too corny a thing to say. It’s probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that’s how I feel.
Thank God there has been no recurrence of 9/11. It is not because of luck – it is because of mass sacrifice and effort.
I had my daughter when I was pretty young, 28, and I had to sacrifice not going out with my friends, and I had to figure out how to juggle both raising her and also a very demanding job.
Mulan is so important in Chinese folklore – a fearless girl who cared about her family and country so much that she was willing to join the fight and sacrifice herself.
Why would I accept to earn less money to play for Barcelona? Why are players the ones supposed to sacrifice themselves?
I think there’s no sacrifice too great for family, whether it’s career, singing, whatever.
It used to upset me – now it makes me sad – to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.
I like singing practically more than anything else, and I want to be the best, but I don’t want to sacrifice time with my children.
When I look at our communities, our country, our justice system, those are things I want to change and I’m committed to changing, and that’s going to take sacrifice. Laying the foundation is the hardest part and requires a lot of sacrifice and time.
Everyone says they support our troops and thank you for their service, if they really want to support their troops, demand better. Demand that their sacrifice not be wasted. That we not just muddle along as some of the generals have called for.
What the Anzac legend did do, by the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, was reinforce our own cultural notions of independence, mateship, and ingenuity. Of resilience and courage in adversity.
I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won’t need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, ‘I want to do that,’ and sacrifice the fact it might not be very good.
I have the greatest respect for single parents who struggle and sacrifice, trying against almost superhuman odds to hold the family together. They should be honored and helped in their heroic efforts. But any mother’s or father’s task is much easier where there are two functioning parents in the home.
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too – at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they’re crazy, because ‘sacrifice’ infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.
I did not have a normal life. I’d be training when my sister would be at birthday parties and sleepovers. I finished high school by correspondence, basically working two full-time jobs. The last years were very, very tough. But I was willing to do that. It’s all about sacrifice.
The one thing I won’t do is sacrifice my Indian identity in my music, my clothing choices. It’s something I tried to hide growing up, and I would never do that again because it’s such a big part of me and I’m very proud of it.
We can no more condone the wastefulness of self-serving company executives than we can the sacrifice of the lives of our citizens in a senseless war.
It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.
Grudge no expense – yield to no opposition – forget fatigue – till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.
Working 24 hours a day isn’t enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it’s any less, they’re wrong, and they will fail.
Bringing good news is imparting hope to one’s fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
You make sacrifices. You sacrifice yourself. Do you want to possibly win a championship? Or do you want to be the same person you were when you were 20 and get those same numbers?
The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.
Sadly, there are inherent risks associated with the job of a law enforcement officer, and some make the ultimate sacrifice each year.
Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
We don’t have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
I always sacrifice myself for the love of all my people.
All mothers sacrifice so much for their kids. So, I think it is the job of a mother that deserves the highest salary.
I think most people agree with the idea of shared sacrifice, but for many, when push comes to shove, that principle goes out the window.
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone.
Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn’t do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can’t.
My kids gotta understand: they gotta make a sacrifice, having a superstar dad.
Run into other people for 20 years, you’re gonna have pain. But I’d do it all again… It’s like I say to my kids: ‘Good things that happen are often a byproduct of a sacrifice you’ve made.’
Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.
