Quotes About Duty

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty—to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies. It is your battle—either victory or martyrdom." ?—Ahmed Yassin, founder of Hamas

A famous poem I had quoted in a novel came to mind: "And how can a man die better, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods?" How, indeed?

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

13. What is biblical masculinity? It is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Patriotism is not only patrolling the nation's borders, but doing ones duties perfectly.

Richmond's Mrs. William McFarland. "Let us remember that we belong to that sex which was last at the cross, first at the grave…Let us go now, hand in hand, to the graves of our country's sons, and as we go let our energies be aroused and our hearts be thrilled by this thought: It is the least thing we can do for our soldiers.

Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.

He learned from the Greek poets "not to expect too much from life; not to dream of a chimerical bliss, ... but to do his duty, without expecting to be rewarded ..., to cultivate his friends and love his country even to the point of self sacrifice." From ancient writers he learned the possibility of courageous resignation, and under their inspiration he worked out for himself a program which was little short of the heroic.

Necessity brings him here, not pleasure.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it's not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it's a duty.

My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.