Quotes About Self Sacrifice For Family

#1. The time spent on family is not a sacrifice. You are living a life with choices; when you make the right ones, you have a good life.

Laura Schlessinger

#2. Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she had ever known; doomed herself to eternal damnation, for the sake of what she had believed would be heaven on earth, and had turned out to be hell, here and now?

Fay Weldon

#3. A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#4. No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War.

Colin Powell

#5. Mothers are bravest and best they sacrifice themselves for the welfare of family.

Kishore Bansal

#6. As for the possibility of 'having it all,' career and family with no sacrifice to either, that is a myth we would do well to abandon, together with the pernicious notion that a woman who chooses one of the other is somehow deficient.

Sonia Sotomayor

#7. Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?

Diana Gabaldon

#8. As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

Mark McKinnon

#9. At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

Dave Reichert

#10. My family's great and everybody's happy and healthy and my career is good. But personally, I had to sacrifice a lot in my own personal life. And I regret that.

Darren Shahlavi

#11. This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values ...

Laurie Halse Anderson

#12. When you hold your baby for the first time. All the pain in your life disappears. You'll sacrifice many things for your children, your family. It's hard to watch them make the wrong decisions.

Catherine Bybee

#13. Mankind was always enslaved, they'll say. Freedom enslaves us to lust, to greed. Take freedom away, and they give me a life of dreaming. They gave you a life of sacrifice, family, community. And society is stable.

Pierce Brown

#14. People readily demonstrate a willingness to sacrifice their safety and survival for the sake of something beyond themselves, such as family, country, or justice.

Atul Gawande

#15. Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.

Kathy Baker

#16. Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.

Rick Riordan

#17. Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it's, it's time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena.

Thaksin Shinawatra

#18. 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.

Ming-Na Wen

#19. An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#20. When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#21. A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#22. A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#23. No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

Anthony Kennedy

#24. Success doesn't come overnight and there's certain things you can't do. I've missed so many weddings, christenings and birthdays, but I know all my family are there behind me, wanting me to do really well and it was worth the sacrifice.

Jenny Meadows

#25. So he immolated himself. He made the sacrifice because he was a father; he went into voluntary exile. His daughters were satisfied, so he thought that he had done the best thing he could; but it was a family crime, and father and daughters were accomplices.

Honore De Balzac

#26. A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#27. A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#28. The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.

Ezra Taft Benson

#29. As a comedian, especially one that works as much as I do, there is a lot of sacrifice. People don't see that I'm away from my family 46 weeks out of the year. I miss all the birthdays and anniversaries and holidays.

Gabriel Iglesias

#30. I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

Kate Hudson