Horace Mann Quotes

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

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

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . . He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. . . . he simply worked, inspiring the young, rebuking the old, helping the weak, guiding the strong.