Quotes About Duty

That's a really strange, unique position to be in - royalty is where you have no choice over what your duties are.

Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

I do not care whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent. We must pull for the people who are wearing the uniform of the armed forces. These people weren't drafted. They enlisted, because they believe.

One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

The spine of the FBI is the rule of law. The spine of the FBI is a commitment to doing the right thing, in the right way, while protecting civil liberties.

We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

I've been given the opportunity to carry forward the legacy with which people associate me; I can't escape it even if I don't like it. I take pride in carrying forward what's been given to me.

Anyplace we go in the world, when someone asks us what we do, we feel an immense pride in saying, 'FBI.'

I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.