Endurance Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

— Mark Twain

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

“The martyr is the exact opposite of the pagan hero personified in the Greek and Germanic heroes … For the pagan hero, a man’s…

— Alain de Benoist

Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Florence Nightingale

“We must all make the mental leap from the pious histories we have read in the martyrologies to the reality of living flesh and…

— Michael D. O'Brien

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

— Frederick Douglass

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

— Horace

“A true martyr is not an opportunist who dies to get a reward of eternal life. A true martyr is a humanist who dies…

— Mouloud Benzadi

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

— William Hazlitt

“Heroes. Brave men and women who lay down their lives for someone else... Our culture understands heroism. But we don’t understand martyrs.”

— DC Talk