Quotes About Duty

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

Believing was a sacred duty. And those who were so traitorous as not to believe should, at least, have the decency to keep their mouths shut.

She knew that from childhood playmates grew beaux in later years, and the first duty of a girl was to get married. She told herself that the child was merely full of life and there was still time in which to teach her the arts and graces of being attractive to men.

smashed fly or the dead pig, gone stiff in the sun. It made his stomach feel funny even trying. "I don't think it's fair we've got to do Luke's chores now," Luke's other brother

I'm a time officer, sworn to uphold the sanctity of history.

Est Sularus oth Mithas"—"My honor is life.

Est Sularus oth Mithas"—"My honor is life." The code defined honor and was more

Mithas"—"My honor is life.

He used to say that sinning was not about the bad things you'd done and regretted but about the failure to do what you should have done. Especially for others.' She

Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the contempt into which that rash ruling has fallen should extend to other, more just legislation.

Practicaba en secreto una vida austera de la que nadie tenía idea. Pero el largo aprendizaje del deber estoico no lo había endurecido en una actitud de falsa sabiduría; era demasiado fino como para no haberse apercibido de que los extremos de la virtud se asemejan a los del amor en que su mérito proviene precisamente de su rareza, de su condición de obra maestra única, de hermoso exceso.

So not only do I have to go out and fight evil villains, I have to take up woodworking, too?

And not actually the great sacrifice that I'm making

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Anyone who has received from God the gift of knowledge and true eloquence has a duty not to remain silent

Blum remarks that Kant and Hegel specify that rationality, self-control, strength of will, consistency, adherence to duty and obligation, and acting on 'universal' principles comprise moral behavior; they specifically exclude from the makeup of moral man qualities like sympathy, compassion, kindness, nurturance, and concern for the community, which are associated with women.

Marilynne Robinson

It offends my conscience to bear witness against him.

Je crois passionnément que, si on possède la fin de créer, on n'a pas le droit de se tuer parce qu'il est de votre devoir de partager ce son avec autrui.

Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family...

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.