Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Men, today we die a little.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car ... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

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

It is better to die fighting than to live begging.

Heroes don't get anything but dead.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Send me six hundred men who know how to die

A real man should die in front of the ranks, not hide behind a wall!

If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.

This isn’t the first time I’ve faced death, and I don’t intend for it to be the last,” I said, repeating the same words he’d told me before fighting in that fateful duel. “I’ve chosen to live a dangerous life, but it’s who I am, and that wouldn’t change even if we’d never met.

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

Die trying" is the proudest human thing.

To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.