Quotes About Duty

The hero we sympathize with because he is in love or cherishes some personal ambition, they condemn as weak because he has allowed these feelings to come between him and his gimu or his giri.

We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

Obeying an unjust law is itself unjust.

Being just may not always be easy but it's always required.

Just because something is the law, doesn't make it right.

You have a moral duty to make what's unjust just, if it's just that you do so.

and he kills without fear, or anger, or hate, with regret even, simply because its necessary. That's rare, and it's rare still among the really first-rate. God help the enemy that finally frightens him or makes him mad.

Sen sak?n kimseye asker olaca??m? söyleme.Yaln?z senden bir ricam var.Hemen radyocuya git?askere gidece?imi,bunun için taksitleri ödemeyece?imi ve askerde iken icraya verse bile para alamayaca??n? söyle.?sterse radyoyu geri als?n.Pe?in olarak verdi?imiz 30 liran?n on liras?n? da ba???layal?m.Anten de onlar?n olsun.Raz? olurlarsa ne ala.Olmazlarsa hava al?rlar.?stersen bu mektubu da göster.

Man feels the need of giving utterance to his thoughts, and this need is imperious like a duty demanding accomplishment. He feels that to keep the truth to himself is a crime equal to that of compressing the utterance of it in another.

Responsibility simply means your ability to respond.

If it is all right for black people to be drafted and sent to Korea or South Vietnam or Laos or Berlin or someplace else to fight and die for the white man, then there is nothing wrong with that same black man doing the same thing when he is under the brutality in this country at the hands of the white man.

They asked if I knew what "conscientious objector" meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

Whether you are shivering with cold or too hot, sleepy or wide awake, spoken well of or badly, dying, or doing anything else, do not let it interfere with doing what is right. For whatever causes us to die is also one of life's processes. Even for this, nothing is required of us than to accomplish well the task at hand.

You have the power within you to endure anything, for your mere opinion can render it tolerable, perhaps even acceptable, by regarding it as an opportunity for enlightenment or a matter of duty.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, I have to go to work - as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for - the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.

IN THE morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present- I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

I do my duty: other things trouble me not; for they are either things without life, or things without reason, or things that have rambled and know not the way.

Never shirk the proper dispatch of your duty, no matter if you are freezing or hot, groggy or well-rested, vilified or praised, not even if dying or pressed by other demands.

From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have not leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relations to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.