Quotes About Duty

A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.

Everyone is responsible for everything he does

It was presumptuous for one man to forgive another. That was the duty of God. For men to pretend such mercy was an idle pride and a lack of respect. He did not desire any such mercy for himself.

Neri was content, satisfied that he lived in a world that properly rewarded a man who did his duty.

I'll tell you one thing you didn't learn from him: talking the way you're talking now. There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.

Mercy is a vice, a pretension to powers we do not have. Those who give mercy commit an unpardonable offense to the victim. And that is not our duty here on earth.

Una cosa no has aprendido de él, Mike: a hablar de la forma en que lo estás haciendo. Hay cosas que deben hacerse y se hacen, pero nunca se habla de ellas. Uno no trata de justificarlas; no pueden ser justificadas. Se hacen, simplemente. Y luego se olvidan.

Într-o clasificare dup? merite, pe primul loc se afl? militarii. ÎÅŸi fac datoria, se Å£in foarte puÅ£in de intrigi, nu pierd timpul. Apoi, t?ranii. (…) Urmeaz? funcÅ£ionarii, întreprinz?torii, comercianÅ£ii. LiteraÅ£ii ÅŸi intelectualii – ultimii. Chiar ÅŸi dup? preoÅ£i… O adun?tur? de canalii.

Nuestro hermoso deber es imaginar que hay un laberinto y un hilo.»

any right is always coupled with a responsibility

Thou art a minister of the Word; Mind thy Business!

When he got back to Phu Bai, one of the walking wounded, he was ordered to look through nearly a hundred body bags and identify those he recognized. It took him two days to complete the job, unzipping the bags and looking at the pale, lifeless faces.

We do not doubt the outcome," he said. "The duty of peace is burdensome. It is a duty many generations of Americans have chosen as their own. It is a duty many other young men have borne as you bear it now. In the discharge of that duty, none have honored themselves—none have honored their nation—so nobly, or so bravely, as the United States Marines.

Nobody ever tells you when you go into police work that it will require dishonesty.

He was disappointed on his first Vietnam tour in 1965 when he'd seen little action. Now, with his own company, he was eager to be put to use. His ears stuck out on either side of his high-and-tight and he wore US Marine Corps–issued glasses in thick black plastic frames. In his wallet, he carried a formal portrait of his wife, Missy, and daughter, Marianne, both wearing pink. The politics of the war didn't concern him at all. He was a marine; there was a war on.

God uses not so much gifts for evangelism (though there is a biblical gift of evangelism) but the faithfulness of thousands and millions of Christians who would never say evangelism is their gift. Your conclusion that you are not gifted for a particular task does not absolve you of responsibility to obey. You may conclude that evangelism is not your gift, but it is still your duty. Not

Tell Jack that after he finishs saving the universe again, he has to take out the trash in the kitchen. -Rosalind Kirby, one day in 1971

I cooked his meals. I cleaned his clothes. I looked after him every weekend. I look after him when he was ill. I took him to the doctor. I worried myself sick everytime he wandered off somewhere at night. I went to school every time he got into a fight. And you? What? You wrote him some fucking letters.

Honor is a complex and important matter best served by doing the right thing.

We have been shirking too long, and that's unworthy of a great civilization. To see off the new Dark Ages will be tough and demanding. The alternative will be worse.

Why are we fighting? We're fighting because we're soldiers. That's simple enough, isn't it? For what cause are we fighting? Simple again. We're fighting to protect our country, and, in a wider sense, the whole of the English-Speaking Union. From whom? No concern of ours. Where? Wherever we're sent. Now, Foxe, I trust all this is perfectly clear.

suggestion of public service, even

not required to stay late in the Whitehall area, I used, as a general routine, to come straight back from duty to a nearby pub, dine there, then retire to bed with a book. At that period the seventeenth century particularly occupied me, so that works like Wood's Athenae Oxonienses or Luttrell's Brief Relation opened up vistas of the past, if not necessarily preferable to one's own time, at least appreciably different. These historical readings could be varied with Proust.