Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

For months people have been begging me to come here for this Kamikaze operation. We will die well. The fact that we are taking a role in a great moment is history is a great honor.

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.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

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

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

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

Whether on the scaffold high Or on the battle-field we die, Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall.

The youth movement here must aspire to a martyrdom death…. The young must be first at the front line - don’t hide at the back. You must be at the front, die as martyrs and all your sins will be forgiven. This is how to achieve forgiveness.

I long to die for such a true cause; I wish to expire on the bed of glory; I wish to perish at my post.

I jumped on the grenade that was thrown at myself and my friend. I don't recommend it.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Men, today we die a little.

Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

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

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

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

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