Quotes: Martyr

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

I’m fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one’s inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.