Quotes About Duty

Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.

This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.

I hate it when they say, ?He gave his life for his country.? They don?t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'

I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.

I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness. I woke and discovered that life was Duty. I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness.

When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

I gave my life for freedom-This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

No one gets left behind, you know that.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.