Quotes About Duty

And he did. Billy knew that, even if he did not love Greg, even if he had other guys, and other plans for the long term, he would still do this thing. He would help Greg in his last months, or years. And he might resent it but he would not regret it: because this was the thing that was given him to do.

President Putin declared a holiday to give couples time off to make babies, and on one Valentine's Day he urged couples to do their patriotic duty and procreate.

I would give my life for this country, but this country would do nothing for my wife and child had I died.

Fellow-graduates: Duty bids us go forth into active life. Let us go cheerfully, hopefully, and earnestly, and set ourselves to find our especial part. When we have found it, willingly and faithfully perform it; for every obstacle we overcome, every success we achieve tends to bring man closer to God and make life more as He would have it.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

He considers it his duty to help these founders understand the futility of persevering, so these brilliant people can move on to more worthwhile opportunities. The first obstacle Conway faces is the most obvious one: getting founders to actually recognize that the venture is failing and that it's time for them to walk away. Conway is battling the host of cognitive and motivational forces that make it hard for these entrepreneurs to do that.

quoting an August 2005 speech by then president George W. Bush justifying staying the course in Iraq by saying, "We owe [the two thousand soldiers who had already died] something. We will finish the task that they gave their lives for."); Van Putten, Zeelenberg, and Van Dijk, "Who Throws Good Money after Bad?," 2010, 33 ("one of the most important reasons to continue the way in Iraq was to prevent acknowledging that soldiers who fell in battle died in vain").

Limitation has success . . . . Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man; if they existed, his life would only dissolve in the boundless. To become strong a man's life needs the limitations ordained by duty and voluntarily accepted.

If I had a choice, I'd rather not fight someone from Brazil, but as a professional, I couldn't say no.

One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?

I think the thing that's impressed me the most has been the fantastic professionalism of the officials in the Senate.

As members of the military, Coast Guardsmen are prohibited from wading into politics.

Making a promise and honoring the word given is Hindutva for me.

I promised my dad that I'd take care of my mom and sister, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.

There are some times when something is proposed which becomes personal to you and you realize the Government is about to do something fantastically stupid and I think in those circumstances one has a duty to speak up.

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.