Quotes About Duty

he would carry out the orders and it was bad luck that you liked the people you must do it with.

O Lord, to comport myself as a man tomorrow in the day of battle.

your own death seemed of complete unimportance; only a thing to be avoided because it would interfere with the performance of your duty.

Qué va," the boy said. "It is what a man must do." They

Qua Va," the boy said. "It is what a man must do.

There was nothing to it, gentlemen. All a man need ever do is obey.

Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.

Im Osten, Westen und Süden liegen die letzten Ruhestätten jener deutschen Soldaten, die für Heimat und Land den Weg der Pflicht bis zum bitteren Ende beschritten haben. Sie sind eine ständige Mahnung an unsere Zurückgebliebenen und unsere zukünftigen Generationen, dass wir sie nicht im Stich lassen dürfen, wenn es darum geht, Opfer für Deutschland zu bringen.

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.

It's not our desires that are different today, but the fact that we feel we deserve—indeed, we are obligated—to pursue them. Our primary duty is now to ourselves—even if it comes at the expense of those we love. As Pamela Druckerman points out, "Our high expectations for personal happiness might even make us more likely to cheat. After all, aren't we entitled to an affair, if that's what it takes to be fulfilled?

She is to take a break from the idea that pleasure must be paid for, in advance, by the performance of duty. We chisel away at this complex system of fairness and merit, where everything has to be perfectly equitable in order to neutralize selfishness.

To head north, a knight may use the North Star to guide him, but he will not arrive at the North Star. A knight's duty is to proceed in that direction.

Vivons notre vie, soyons heureux. Nous avons le devoir d'être heureux.

If our liberty and republican form of government, procured for us by our revolutionary fathers, are worth the blood and treasure at which they were obtained, it is surely our duty to protect and defend them.

LOS REPORTEROS no trabajamos para ser queridos. Es nuestra responsabilidad hacer preguntas duras a los ricos y poderosos

Morality is not a one not song. It's a harmony of obligations to man and God.

Does it matter that the executioner likes his job?

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

He privately remarked that Boothby 'should join a bomb disposal squad as the best way of rehabilitating himself in the eyes of his fellow men. After all, the bombs might not go off.'133 It sounded cruel, but that is much what he himself had done in 1915, when the six-week average life-expectancy for new officers on the Western Front was not dissimilar to that of bomb-disposal squads in the Second World War.

The interpretation Churchill gave to the obligations of aristocracy was that he and his class had a profound responsibility towards his country, which had the right to expect his lifelong service to it.

have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 4 June 1940

Derek frowned, looking down. "That's fine... I'll just, uh, stand here. And protect you. Yes. That is definitely what I will be doing.

the land belonged to all of the generations of the family, including those yet unborn, and there was a duty to them.

It's the Navy, sir, and we are at war. You know what they say, sir – 'if you can't take a joke, you should not have joined'.