Lynsey Addario Quotes

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

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.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

At least I died trying. And I won.I never gave them away. I never hurt them. I did my best to find them. I tried to keep my promise... I die for them.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

We are not interested in our own personal security. On the contrary, each of us lives his days and nights hoping more than anything to be killed for the sake of Allah. The most honorable death is to be killed.

Where could death have found him but at the post of duty.