Quotes About Duty

Dead heroes do nothing to protect their people tomorrow.

Responsibility educates.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.

Ay, this is the famed rock, which HerculesAnd Goth and Moor bequeathed us. At this doorEngland stands sentry.

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.

Ba?l?l??? "duygusall?k" ya da "küçük-burjuva al??kanl???" olarak nitelendiriyorsun; ba?ar?lara kar?? sayg?l? olmay?ysa kölece bir el etek öpme say?yorsun. Sayg?s?zl?k göstermen gereken yerde el etek öptü?ünden, ba?l?l?k göstermen gereken yerde nankörlük etti?inden haberin bile yok.

Ya?am sanat?n?n ödevi, ba?ar?l? bir hayata katk?da bulunmak ve insan? mutlu etmek de?il midir? Evet, k?smen öyledir ama ba?ar?s?z ve mutsuz olmak da vard?r insna hayat?nda. En az?ndan basitçe "def edemeyece?imiz" için vard?r. Ba?ar? zorunluluk de?ildir, ba?ar?s?zl?k hep bir ihtimaldir.

Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

But this was the army. Useful or not, there was a routine to be followed and orders to be obeyed.

If I received a calling to serve in the church, then I have sheep to whom I have a divine obligation to minister and to serve.

The conversations rests uneasily; one doesn't expect good-byes to be burdened by such trivialities. This is not how it is in the books, he thinks, or in the theater, and he feels the need to speak of mission, of duty, of love. They reach home and close the door and he doesn't drop her hand. Where speech fails, touch compensates.

Terrorizing you," he proclaimed, "while you are carrying arms on our land, is a legitimate and morally demanded duty.

Quando la vita è quello che è, il romanzo ha il dovere di essere quello che vuole.

Only a weak man fails to honor his parents.

To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, taught us there were Five Pillars of Islam. We believe there is a sixth. Jihad is not a choice. It is an obligation. The al-Saud understand this. Once again, they are willing to look the other way, provided the brothers don't make trouble inside the Kingdom. That was Bin Laden's biggest

You exist in this place, you sleep peacefully in this land tonight, because of people like me.

With authority comes responsibility.

Necessity brings him [Dante] here, not pleasure.