Cesar Chavez Quotes

I am certainly not a martyr kind of a person. I love my life. But if one has to, then there is nothing more nobler a cause that I can think of.

Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.

Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.

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.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

I will flight for the people until my last breath.

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.

I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

I have only you, the people of Belarus, and I will serve to the last of my days.

I pledge to give all there is of myself.

People know Modi did not do anything for himself. Whatever he has done is for people and the country.

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.