Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation — the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. – David Lloyd George

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. – Johann von Goethe

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow