Quotes About Duty

I think it would be advisable, Mamma," said Marianne. "We need the exercise." She spoke primly in her quiet, hard little voice, her clear brain leading her to make unerring attack upon the maternal sense of duty rather than the maternal affections.

If EVACC is a sort of ark, Griffith becomes its Noah, though one on extended duty, since already he's been at things a good deal longer than forty days.

Tired is a feeling, but duty is a fact

Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. You go gallivanting over the earth, climbing mountains, looking for the sources of the Nile; and expect women to sit dully at home embroidering. I embroider very badly. I think I would excavate rather well.

It's our duty to bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can.

She could make the bed, do the laundry, feed the dog. But she could not be bothered with any more meals. "What'll we have for supper?" Henry would ask, coming upstairs from the basement. "Strawberries.

Hello, Olive," he said, walking to her. He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away. He told her the Thibodeaus were coming for supper. "It's only right," he said. Olive wiped sweat from her upper lip, turned to rip up a clump of onion grass. "Then that's that, Mr. President," she said. "Give your order to the cook.

man's function is not just to think—which Aristotle admits to be the highest of all human activities—but also to do.

Beginning with their founder, Zeno, the Stoics taught that the key to the happy life is adhering to a strict sense of virtue and a rigid duty toward others rather than indulging in pleasure, and a renunciation of, or at least an indifference to, all worldly goods.

America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other."8

the duty of the sovereign to respect that liberty: and when he doesn't, when "he that in a State of Society would take away the Freedom that belongs to those of that Society," and pretends to be our master rather than our servant, then it is he, not us, who is the real rebel against society.

When the ruler or rulers failed to act in the people's interest, Buchanan wrote, then each and every citizen, even "the lowest and meanest of men," had the sacred right and duty to resist that tyrant, even to the point of killing him.

For it is beautiful only to do the thing we are meant for

Votre ardeur Est le devoir. Elle est retrouvée ! — Quoi ? — l'Éternité. C'est la mer mêlée Au soleil.

Nu-i vina aramei dac? se trezeÅŸte trâmbi??!

Man kann jemanden wahnsinnig lieben und muss doch um acht Uhr früh aufstehen, nicht wahr?

We are unprofitable servants" (Luk 17:10)—our obedience has profited God nothing.

Hence, as John Owen said: Sin's proper formal object is God It hath, as it were, that command from Satan which the Assyrians had from their king: "fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel," that sin sets itself against. There lies the secret, the formal reason of all opposition to good, even because it relates unto God.... The law of sin makes not opposition to any duty, but to God in every duty.

He fully discharged the obligations of every relationship that He sustained, either to God or to man.

Parenthood is an unspeakably solemn matter.

A questo mondo ci sono tante cose che si è costretti a fare per amore o per forza.

Podías haber picado espuelas y largarte. Pero en vez de eso, viniste a socorrerme. Asintió Ruy Díaz sin apartar la vista de los exploradores. —Huir sólo sirve para morir cansado y sin honra.

Tal es, en mi opinión —prosigue—, el patriotismo necesario en un joven militar... No el de esos matachines de salón que, creyendo que el amor a la patria es callar sus defectos y abrazar sus bajezas, sin haber visto más fuego que el de su cigarro

Volviendo a la guerra, el Emperador prosiguió: «Los españoles en masa se condujeron como un hombre de honor»...