AJ Lee Quotes

Not what they want but what is good for them.

We don't possess this job and this job doesn't possess us. We have to make some very tough decisions. If it means falling on the sword, it means falling on the sword.

There are things that are more important than my personal happiness.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.

Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.

You may judge for yourselves, without partiality, whether I have not sacrificed my life, my being, every minute of my time in order to make a nation of you.

In order to maintain my own self-respect, I had to dedicate my life to something that was greater than my own self-interest.

There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.

It's always easier to sacrifice when you're not the one who has to do it.

I've always put everybody else's child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.

Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.

The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

Leadership is a choice to protect the person to the left of us, and protect the person to the right of us, and sometimes that may come at a cost. It may cost us our benefits, it may cost us our comfort, it may sometimes cost us our perks, whatever it is, credit.

Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.