Tony Ferguson Quotes

I don't want nobody getting on my brother. So that's how I take it. If I got to be the one that goes first, oh, well, let it be.

My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

Let France be free, and I care not if my name is dishonored.

And even if I were alone, ... I should have the consolation ... to the last moment of my existence ... that no word of mine has tended to the squandering of my country's treasure or the spilling of one single drop of my country's blood.

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

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

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

The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.

In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

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.

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.

True love requires sacrifice.