Quotes About Duty

No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do.

Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it, we reinforce the notion that reading is something we should do, but telly is something that we want to do.

Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is not the duty of a writer.

The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.

A]ll the...people who visited me out of a sense of duty, who were relentlessly sympathetic and secretly indifferent.

Our Country—whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less—still our Country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands.

Krulak knew he would pay a price, and he still did the right thing. At a time when he had everything to lose, he was the only general in the American military whose sense of duty and love of country were greater than his careerism.

If you knew your job and you did your job, you could not have a better friend in the Corps than General Krulak.

The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs. The duty of government is to help them do it. This is the pasta of politics. The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta. --Bombolini

They'd had conversations about Sloane's job, defending clients to the best of his abilities no matter his personal feelings about their innocence or guilt.

The dead don't bury the dead. Only the living can do that.

You know the definition of a hero?" I figured I could make up one on the fly. "Someone who acts without considering his own safety?" "Someone too stupid not to consider his own safety and gets himself and other people killed

We keep trying to get Tracy to make it official and come down here full-time to train the newbies. What do you say, Tracy?" "Same as always, Lazar. I'll come when people stop killing each other." "Right, and when farts stop smelling.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

She was no pushover. That was for sure. She was strong, opinionated, easy to underestimate and misunderstand. She had her own ideas about duty and honor and she kept to her principles even with a gun at her back.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

If the Bible is the work of God, it should contain the sublimest truths, it should excel the works of man, it should contain the loftiest definitions of justice, the best conceptions of human liberty, the clearest outlines of duty, the tenderest and noblest thoughts.