Quotes About Duty

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.

It is up to us in our time to choose, and choose wisely, between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom, and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day.

But Nancy is right—Presidents don't have vacations—they just have a change of scenery";

I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Patriarchy changed all that. With a genuine belief in the one God came the inescapable duty to enforce it upon others; with the claim to the patent on truth came for the first-time ideas of orthodoxy, habits of bigotry and the practice of persecution.

Señora 4: ¿Se trata de agradar siempre a los hombres? Lupita: No hay otra alternativa, si pensamos que nuestra misión en el mundo es perpetuar la especie.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love & duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting & challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

In any real democracy, magistracy isn't a benefit—it's a burdensome responsibility that can't fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another

No me gusta llenar de plomo a nadie, pero es mi trabajo

There is but one task for all -- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall? [ For All We Have and Are ]

Rudyard Kipling

Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

To abstain from action is well—except to acquire merit.' 'At the Gates of Learning we were taught that to abstain from action was unbefitting a Sahib.

I said, 'Yes theres a lot to look a head to. Like croaking iron at Widders Dump. We do the croaking and they get the iron.' He said, 'Riddley theres other things to do as wel.' I said, 'Yes and they all smel of cow shit dont they?

The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.

The fortunate chance in life is that the two correspond, that my wish is my duty and vice versa, and the task of most men in life is precisely to remain within their duty and by their enthusiasm to transform it into their wish.

Mi tarea consiste en poner freno a una difusión mentirosa del Cristianismo y en ayudarle al Cristianismo a sacudirse de una masa de Cristianos nominales.

Happy my lot in life if my desire coincides with my duty, and conversely; and most people's task in life is exactly to stay under their obligation, and by their enthusiasm to transform it into their wish.

A Panegyric upon Abraham

From this, however, it does not follow that the ethical is to be abolished, but it acquires an entirely different expression, the paradoxical expression – that, for example, love to God may cause the knight of faith to give his love to his neighbor the opposite expression to that which, ethically speaking, is required by duty. If

The crux of a great person's life is the choice between doing what is right and what he wants to do. Abraham Lincoln, who was a proficient wrestler and enjoyed a good bout, probably would have preferred spending his time on the mat to starting a war in which approximately two per cent of the population died

Perhaps it was wrong to lie with her. Another duty, another obligation, another potential source of guilt. Was I lying to her in lying with her?

It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.