“Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.” LongWarEndsFightingStruggleSacrificeIndependentPainfulResistanceVietnamVietnam War Author:Ho Chi Minh
“Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.” Life IsJoySacrificeRewardsPainfulDisappointmentPleasantJoy And Happiness Author:Mel Gibson
“The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.” IndividualRaceSacrificeChildhoodPainfulPanicAvertPlacating Author:Rebecca West
“Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.” SelfWholeRememberEffortStepsProgressSacrificeHigherAmbitionStandardsMarkPainfulDenialLengthLaddersSelf-denialHigher Standards Book:Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated Source: Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated
“Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.” RealSelfGovernmentSacrificeRevolutionPainful Author:Li Keqiang
“Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue--an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.” HumanityFallAnimalDarknessStruggleGraceTroubleSacrificeConditionsLaborPainfulPurityDirtDistressToilHumiliationFatigueEnablingExertionCompulsoryStruggling To SurviveFalls From Grace Author:Shoshana Zuboff
“We could curtail private spending by several trillion dollars a year without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. That would be more than enough to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and eliminate government indebtedness once and for all.” YearsEnoughGovernmentWould BeSacrificeDollarsPainfulSpendingInfrastructureCrumblingIndebtednessCrumbling Infrastructure Author:Robert H. Frank
“The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing.” TryingLittlesPainSufferingDifficultPrayerPoorSacrificePrayingPainfulExtrasMaskCoveredMultitudesInteriorsHypocriticalAgonizing Author:Brian Kolodiejchuk
“Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.” ThinkingMayChildrenHas BeensWarSelfEnoughSeemsHumanitySinPayRaceStepsSacrificeBloodBlessingFlowOur ChildrenPainfulPunishmentEvery StepSelf SacrificeAscent Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery
“No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.” FirstsTodayFightingLove IsFailingSacrificeMarriedPainfulPretendingWork LovePainful Love Book:Midnight and the Meaning of Love Source: Midnight and the Meaning of Love
“Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.” KnowsTodaySacrificeBrokenPainfulWoundsFoolishFriendship Broken Author:Milan Kundera