Sacrifice

Loneliness is the price you pay when you start to improve yourself.

Loneliness is the price you pay when you start to improve yourself.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.

Abigail Van Buren

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.

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.

Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.

Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.

Henry David Thoreau

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

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

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

Love will make men dare to die for their beloved - love alone; and women as well as men.

Love will make men dare to die for their beloved - love alone; and women as well as men.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

G.K. Chesterton

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

G.K. Chesterton

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Benjamin Franklin