Joseph Estrada Quotes

My life is so full of sacrifices.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.

If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.

I know the word 'sacrifice.'

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

It takes a little blood to let the learning in.

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

Nothing of value is ever won without sacrifice.

Politically, you can’t do pain without the gain.

For the higher interest of the nation, you've got to be capable of hurting yourself.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.