Will Rogers Quotes

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

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Heroes are not always available.

Heroes don't get anything but dead.

Anyone can be a hero. You just have to have faith in yourself.

A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender.

I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

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.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

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.

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

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.