Martyr Quotes

Martyr Quote of the day

We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr's blood.

A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.

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

Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.

I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.

It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.

The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.

I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

If the heart bleeds love, bare it, If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr.

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.

While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.

The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

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

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.