Quotes About Duty

The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons. But the liberty, the only liberty, I mean is a liberty connected with order: that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

Necesitamos, por ello, una persona conocedora de los ambientes menos gratos de nuestra sociedad, cuyo nombre pueda ensuciarse sin perjuicio de nadie, capaz de realizar por nosotros el trabajo y de la que, llegado el momento, podamos desembarazarnos sin empacho.

The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probly be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn the house! You're soldiers - you must do your duty ... O burn the house! Burn the house! Burn the house!

I learn how great hearts feel what sweetness and glory there is to die for the things they love! I saw a father sacrificing himself for his son; he was subjected to charges which a word of his could dispel, — he was mistaken for his boy. With what joy he seized the error, confessed the noble crimes of valour and fidelity which the son had indeed committed, and went to the doom, exulting that his death saved the life he had given, not in vain!

It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

You're not such tough guys," she said, "you Corleones." Tom Hagen touched the brim of his cap, straightening it on his head. He watched Kelly where she stood brazenly just outside her door. He said, "I'm not sure I'm entirely representative of my family.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Your King and Country need you.

I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war.

Hewers of wood and drawers of water.

What you call a hero, I call just doing my job.

Old soldiers never die;They only fade away!

This embodied [soul] is eternally unslayableIn the body of everyone, son of Bharata;Therefore all beingsThou shouldst not mourn.Likewise having regard for thine own [caste] dutyThou shouldst not tremble;For another, better thing than a fight required of dutyExists not for a warrior.

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

And when he goes to heavenTo Saint Peter he will tell:Another Marine reporting, sir;I've served my time in hell!

Better one's own duty, [though] imperfect,Than another's duty well performed.