Quotes About Duty

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

They must accept responsibility, recognizing that responsibility is not the same as culpability .

Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Only enemies speak the truth.

He needs to be corrected, if you don't mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more. My own girls, sir, didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of my matches and tried to burn it down. I corrected them. I corrected them most harshly. And when my wife tried to stop me from doing my duty, I corrected her.

I HAVE been around at a time when important things needed to be done

To present is to take a stand and being responsible.

...There is a duty of solidarity among all us impossible, near-invisible people: a duty, out of sheer cussedness, not to disappear completely, simply to ease the conscience of the rest.

There is a sacred duty, which you are divinely gifted to performed.

The sooner we wake up and realise that we have a moral duty to guide and protect this planet, the sooner things will improve for every form of life on this planet.

Parenting role-play change every ten years from affection to duty to responsibility, and then the cycle must reverse with next generation playing the same in the reverse sequence.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

The more knowledge, the more responsibility. The more love, the more ability.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

Freely we serve, because freely we love.

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

O hard, when love and duty clash!