Unappreciated Sacrifice Quotes

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd been told I could no longer soldier, and it felt as though no one really cared if I ever shaved again.

It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.

Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.

Sinatra's endurance has become a rallying point for many people who feel that their sacrifices and hard work are no longer honored.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

I think efforts sometimes don't get rewarded.

There's something odd about working 24/7, being consumed with everything that's happening in Iraq, and then coming back to the country that ordered you over there only to realize that a lot of Americans are not really paying attention.

There are a lot of dedicated people out there that don't get the recognition that we get, but they're as important as the people that are sitting in the vehicle.

At a certain point, we need to figure out how to reward those who choose a path that offers, often, almost no reward.

In pessimistic moments, when I was trudging London in search of an employer wanting to make use of such talents as I could offer, it seemed to me, almost, that my father had got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and had left me with nothing but the empty fame of being his son.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.

Michael is a gift from Allah, and he is taking him back. The world didn't appreciate him.

I can't stand the idea of a veteran risking her or his life for this country, suffering the wounds of battle, and then being kicked to the curb as a result of those wounds. But that is exactly what has happened to tens of thousands of men & women who have fought and bled for our country.

I feel empathy wherever and whenever someone feels cornered in life. Whenever someone puts in sweat and blood and does not get the acceptance and appreciation one deserves, I resonate with it.

Some guys lay their fannies out there every night - they play the game at such a high level, and they give so much that, frankly, they don't get credit for it. And I think it's tragic sometimes.