Quotes About Duty

It is sweet to serve one's country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words.

Indeed, Marius, as well at this as at other periods of the war, kept his men to their duty rather by the dread of shame than of severity; a course which many said was adopted from desire of popularity, but some thought it was because he took pleasure in toils to which he had been accustomed from his youth, and in exertions which other men call perfect miseries. The public interest, however, was served with as much efficiency and honor as it could have been under the most rigorous command.

Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ... a hereditary monarchy, wonderfully trained, in duty and in leadership which understands example, which is always there, which is above politics, for which the whole nation has an affection and which is a symbol of patriotism.

Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

Service without selfness, is not service

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

The practical outcome of the foregoing was a conviction in Theobald's mind, and if in his, then in Christina's, that it was their duty to begin training up their children in the way they should go, even from their earliest infancy. The first signs of self-will must be carefully looked for, and plucked up by the roots at once before they had time to grow. Theobald

Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty Runs this poor river, charged with streams of zeal: Returning thee the tribute of my duty, Which here my love, my youth, my plaints reveal.

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

It is the novelist's duty to attack society, for its false complacency, for its repressive rigidity, and for its self-righteous insensitivity. Society is women. Therefore, the novelist must attack and punish women in his works.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

Being a Viking's guarian angel is hard work...

Losses are inevitable on the battlefield, of course, but in my view, no one's expendable apart from the enemy; angry, resentful troopers aren't going to cover my back when the las-bolts start flying,

The Guard needed soldiers of that calibre, and if I had to bend a few regulations to keep them standing between me and whatever the warp might be about to vomit up at us, I'd make origami out of the rulebook without a second thought.

The Bodhisattva, being joyful, spreads confidence and happiness wherever he or she goes. In a sense it is one's duty to be happy and joyful. One can't gladden others unless one is glad oneself.

Why was she so ready to forfeit her own happiness when no one demanded it of her, only her own misplaced sense of duty?

Only a keen sense of public duty restrains me from plugging you where you sit, you ineffable swine.