Azar Nafisi Quotes

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

We all have to find a cause we believe in and pursue it. Sometimes it may cost you your job, your personal life, your love life, etc.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

True leaders are born when you find something to die for

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.

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.

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.

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.

Nothing in life is more exhilarating than fighting for something larger than you.

I'm not a hero. The military is.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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

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.

I don't have a personal life. Whatever I have is for the country and society.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.

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

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

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.

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.