"I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference."

Sacrifice, Selflessness, Purpose, Commitment, Strength

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"I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference."

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"We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Sacrifice, Truth, Love, Life, Inspirational

"The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent."

Tom Coburn, American Politician

Sacrifice, Country, Faces

"Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Sacrifice, Peace, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"The cross unerringly exposes this stunningly marvelous and abruptly exquisite declaration that God will not let this single life of mine, with all of its grotesque maladies and pathetic filth pass into oblivion without unflinchingly declaring that my life carries a value worth the expenditure of His. And if I dare look upon the cross, I am utterly perplexed but wholly enraptured by the immensity of such a love as this."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Sacrifice, Faith, Truth, Love, Power

"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."

Quentin Crisp, English Writer

Sacrifice, Partnership, Relationships

"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?"

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

Sacrifice, Heart, May

"A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

Sacrifice, Will

"I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice."

Zach Wamp, American Politician

Sacrifice, Soul, Deep

"My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

Sacrifice, Character, Interest, Key

"This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice."

Jim Walsh, Irish Politician

Sacrifice, Conflict, Freedom, Nationalsecurity

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"Fate has a cruel sense of humor, don't you think?"

Fate

"No matter how careful we are, if we live long enough, eventually one of us will die. It is not a happy thought, but it is the truth. Such is the way of the world."

Mortality

"Learn to see what you are looking at."

Observation

"Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together."

Religion

"Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey."

Caution

"Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident."

Caution

"Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand.""Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around."

Teaching

"The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose."

Conflict

"If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change."

Happiness

"Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it , the more it gnawed away at who he was."

Mortality