Quotes About Duty

My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.

My responsibility is to feed my family. My responsibility is to support myself.

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

We get paid to do this work, and fellow senators need to do their jobs.

As Marines, it's drilled into us... to take care of fellow Marines.

No one really disagrees that all of humanity has a responsibility to protect fellow citizens in a time of need.

I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

I've spent 20 years in the Army, and I'm just so fiercely proud of being British.

We like to entertain, but it is not our duty to do so. I have had a lot of exciting fights and been hit way too much, so that is something to think about.

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

People who get OBEs are people like firefighters and lifesavers - these are real-life heroes.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

When you serve, whether it's here in the House or in the White House or anywhere else, it's a distinct honor and privilege and so that's about the extent of it.

I grew up knowing my grandfather had served our country for decades in the Navy, buried in his whites in Arlington; I have family members who are veterans.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I would reject wholeheartedly any notion of a Labour Party that is not committed to returning to power at the first opportunity. Of course that needs to be principled power. But standing on the sidelines looking for the purest ideology is a dereliction of the duty for any Labour member.

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.