The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.
I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!
Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.
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.
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
If we must die, O let us nobly die.
An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.
Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.
