Quotes About Duty

Sometimes, it would be much easier to die for one's king than to give one's life for him.

We who serve the Servants aid them to keep that heart beating steadily.

Just because a man can do a thing does not mean he should do a thing.

Sometimes," Chade observed, "It would be much easier to die for one's king than to give one's life to him.

You know your duty and you are doing it. It isn't your fault if Althea can't appreciate that.

You cannot claim that authority one moment, and then shoulder aside from it the next. Crowns cannot be doffed so lightly.

The time had finally come when she would have to accept the full power of the Starwife. No longer could she be just Ysabelle. Now she had a land to govern and all the daunting responsibilities that that entailed. The liberty she had experienced since the night she had escaped from the Ring of Banbha seemed to vanish. She was left stripped of her freedom, and only long years of a lonely reign stretched out before her.

When evidence reached Joffre's ears that the men were complaining, that untenable positions were being given up or that attacks were not being pressed home with their former élan, his answer was not to question Nivelle or his own methods, but to call for courts martial and firing squads.

What is the duty of humans? If gifts and responsibilities are one, then asking "What is our responsibility?" is the same as asking "What is our gift?" It is said that only humans have the capacity for gratitude. This is among our gifts.

just as water was given certain responsibilities for sustaining the world, so were the people. Chief among their duties was to give thanks for the gifts of the earth and to care for them.

Are all the pieces of the ecosystem still here and doing their duty?

Cultures of gratitude must also be cultures of reciprocity. Each person, human or no, is bound to every other in a reciprocal relationship. Just as all beings have a duty to me, I have a duty to them.

I'm staying, Henry said, annoyed. Why? Because, if I leave, it would be like abandoning two mentally challenged people in a nuclear waste dump.

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All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

As the eldest daughter, I had always been responsible for my younger siblings. Now I had to provide their food and clothing and be a second mother to them. My father was no help. He was a kind man, but he shuddered under the added responsibility. Too often I found him outside, alone with his sadness. No man was built to shoulder the full weight of feeding and caring for his family. That was why he had a wife and daughters.

There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.

I shall not lie! Eilonwy cried, not for this traitor and deserter. It is not for him, Taran said quietly, but for the sake of our quest. It isn't right, Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes. We do not speak of rightness, Taran answered. We speak of a task to be finished.

My knowledge of parental duties was slight—something to do with graham crackers and proper underclothing. But those duties certainly did not include dashing off to a country of furious Illyrians and, probably, bad drinking water.

Any Danish citizen would die for King Christian, to protect him.

The Giver continued. "I backed off, gave her more little delights. But everything changed, once she knew about pain. I could see it in her eyes." "She wasn't brave enough?" Jonas suggested. The Giver didn't respond to the question. "She insisted that I continue, that I not spare her. She said it was her duty. And I knew, of course, that she was correct.

I cooked for him like a wife and washed his clothes and was a wife in other ways too terrible to mention.

That's what brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do.