Quotes About Duty

There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people. I don't think it's unique to my profession.

In times of difficulty we all have to understand our responsibilities.

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others.

I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and duty to the cause of the people, I shall combat with equal ardor aristocracy, despotism, and faction.

People thought I was trying to say that women had no say, no rights. I was not saying that. I was saying that women had a role, a duty. When they want to have a say in government - though in Africa they are not expected to do that - they are not discouraged. They can do what they want to do.

The president actually is there to complement the government in power. If they have done something that is not proper, it is the duty of the president to... discuss and to come to some common ground.

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.

It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.

I can say with pride that I have a brother who served with distinction in the Indian Army.

When I came to Washington, I believed that I had one duty, one purpose. I was elected to serve my district, my people and no one else. Since arriving in Congress, I've learned that not everyone shares this philosophy.

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.

Our kids' lives depend upon keeping them safe. That has to be a fundamental duty and responsibility for me as mayor. That means we have to continue hard but necessary work of bridging the divide between police and communities they serve.

The U.S. Military is no place for social experiments.

As an artist and as a Black woman coming out of a background that emphasizes service, there are certain responsibilities that I must assume. I see these responsibilities not as a burden, but as an extension of what I am.

Keep your eye on what you're responsible to and what you're responsible for, and that'll keep you right.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

When the ball falls to you, you have to put it in.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.

In 1975, I was called to active duty in the Air Force, studying U.S. space launches that used nuclear power. I felt it was a big deal to be involved in such an important project - we were providing technical support for launch recommendations that ultimately went to the president.

After Joe passed away in the war, it seemed only natural that Jack and Bobby and then Teddy might pursue office as well. Public service was part of our DNA from our earliest years.

There's no greater challenge, for most parents, than letting a growing teen go out into the world, knowing he is exposed to risk, but that it is also your duty to let him go.

I think, clearly, where you have a situation in which the Solicitor General tells me, 'I cannot in good faith argue a certainly legal position,' and if the president told us to argue that position, we would have to tell him, 'No, we can't do that, Mr. President.'