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.
Alma Gluck

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.
Johannes Tauler

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

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

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

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

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.
Rollo May

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

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

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.
Emile M. Cioran

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

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.
Florence Nightingale

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

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

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
Ernestine Rose