J. K. Rowling Quotes

They never fail who die in a great cause.

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

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

They died to save their country, and they only saved the world.

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.

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

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.

Men, today we die a little.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

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.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

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

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

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

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

What pity it is That we can die but once for our country!

Those prepared to die for the truth, as a rule make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them.

It is a sweet and glorious thing to die for one's country. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.