Quotes About Duty

But the right of might is not a right, it is the violation of right; and the obligation to obey the strongest is not a duty, it is a physical necessity. It is playing with words to call that a right which is a faculty growing and waning with the power which imposes it, and that a duty which is necessary submission to a power against which resistance is vain.

Serenity is the great and true antidote against anguish and fear, and today, more than ever, it is the architect's duty to make of it a permanent guest in the home, no matter how sumptuous or how humble.

You don't need to be "straight" to fight and die for your country; you just need to shoot straight.

The turn will come when we entrust the conduct of our affairs to men who understand that their first duty as public officials is to divest themselves of the power they have been given.

Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it. Once a man is in debt he becomes a flesh and blood form of money, a walking investment. You can do what you like with him, you can work him to death or you can sell him. This cannot be called cruelty or greed because we are seeking only to recover our investment and that is a sacred duty.

So refusing to say you won't do something is the moral equivalent of doing

Give me each day strength to perform the present duty and thus to become a hero and a saint.

Like usual, what I want is not important, what I'm supposed to do that counts.

I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music.

Realizing the responsibility I've been entrusted with... it's humbling. Very humbling.

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

The president's duty to faithfully execute his office includes not only a duty of loyalty to the nation but also a duty of care - a duty to act with reasonable diligence and upon a reasonable basis.

Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

If your government isn't protecting you and the future of your kids, you have a duty to rebel, and a right to rebel.

When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.

I have always kept in mind that I come from a family that is recognizable in public. I have to act responsibly all the times.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

Nothing means more to those in harm's way than the knowledge that their country appreciates their sacrifices and those of their families.