Quotes About Bravery And Sacrifice

#1. History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

Tim Pawlenty

#2. Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice, and what it means to be human ... even if you're not human.

Julie Kagawa

#4. Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.

John Boehner

#5. I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.

Richard Dawkins

#6. Rise up oh heart, for there is another battle to win.

T.A. Cline

#7. David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accordingly.

Geraldine Brooks

#8. In the aftermath, we are because they were.

RJ Heller

#9. Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.

George W. Bush

#10. A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

Warren Eyster

#11. I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.

Morrissey

#12. I went to watch the Buzkasgu game taking place on a series of fields - some fallow, some plowed and planted- just to the east of the empty Buddha niches. Buzkashi is a form of polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball.

Rory Stewart

#13. Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.

Amie Kaufman

#14. Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness.

Charles R. Swindoll

#15. In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#16. Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Morihei Ueshiba

#17. Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#18. A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Look at this lot - how we all threw ourselves into a fight just for him. We're not soldiers. But we know that what we do when we're with him matters.

Scott Tipton

#20. Women, never have got full credit for thei bravery, they sacrifice everything to life

Patrick Kavanagh

#21. Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

Walt Whitman

#22. I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.

Matt Smith

#23. The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.

Criss Jami

#24. Opinions are like ugly children ... despite it all you love your own.

Scott Hutchins

#25. The Hummer hovered there a second, and then flipped over the second vehicle. Through the air it tipped over and over
something was flung from one of the windows, perhaps a person.
Seatbelts save lives.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#26. Dad had attention issues and Ms. Scarecrow Brain wouldn't notice a flying monkey if it smacked her in the face.

Katie McGarry

#27. I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Edward Abbey

#28. The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."

pg 337

Veronica Roth

#29. If I rise up again against the foe, dare I stand alone?

T.A. Cline

#30. I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Mahatma Gandhi