Richelle Mead Quotes

My kids gotta understand: they gotta make a sacrifice, having a superstar dad.

Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.

I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.

There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.

Never sacrifice your family. They are the most important thing in life.

If you are creative, sometimes you give up a lot of things that other people have.

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

When we give of ourselves, our time, and our money, we're also giving up control. As a control freak myself, I know that sounds scary, but I've learned that the momentary lack of control forces me to look at what I do have and truly count my blessings. I have clean drinking water. I have food on my table. I have a roof over my head and clothes on my back. Suddenly, my panic-stricken mindset is replaced with gratitude.

Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

I don't like to use the word sacrifice.

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

You give up a lot when you enter the years of parenting. It's a sacrifice.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.