Quotes About Duty

Well, if it's so easy, Kitty demanded hotly, "how come the magicians haven't stopped it?" The Djin gave a cold smile, "Because it would require personal bravery. They never do anything themselves. They rely on us the whole time. Mandrake gives me an order and I obey. He sits at home and I go out and suffer. That's the way it works.

What cannot be changed, must be endured," he said grimly. "Our duty now is to the living.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

that coin purse rather than sell it. With a heavy heart, Vere accepted that his brother had been a military hero, but a man of little honour.

When a man dies they fetch him with a stretcher, just as he came in; only he enters with a blanket over him, and a flag covers him as he goes out. When he came in he was one of a convoy, but every man who can stand rises to his feet as he goes out. Then they play him to his funeral, to a grass mound at the back of the hospital.

Man hält sich Kinder nicht zum Vergnügen, wie Blumen oder Zebras. Kinder zu haben ist eine Berufung, eine heilige Pflicht, ein Lebensinhalt

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. Lincoln

After the war, Fitz Lee served as governor of Virginia and became one of several former Confederate commanders to return to duty in the U.S. Army for the Spanish-American War.

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

Bonhoeffer himself knew that in all of it, he was being utterly obedient to God. For him, that was the cantus firmus that made the dizzying complexities of it all perfectly coherent.

It's time now for something to be done. He who has the courage to act must know that he will probably go down in German history as a traitor. But if he fails to act, he will be a traitor before his own conscience. —CLAUS SCHENK VON STAUFFENBERG

It's our job to "keep" the republic called America, and we can hardly keep what we don't even know we have. So

The term "noblesse oblige"—the idea that those who have been blessed with much are to use it to help those who have not been so blessed—would not be coined for another half-century, and Wilberforce had yet to discover the relevance of any such idea to his own life.

Strange that the most generous men and religious, do not see that their duties increase with their fortune, and that they will be punished for spending it" on themselves in eating and drinking.

Christians were free, but he also made it clear that their freedom made them duty-bound to behave well toward others. Christian truth was eleven parts paradox out of ten. This was its essentially mysterious and glorious nature.

Wilberforce could put her at ease. Some, he writes to her, "are thrown into public, some have their lot in private life…. [It] would merit no better name than desertion…if I were thus to fly from the post where Providence has placed me.

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths

I take no pleasure of what needs to be done! - 343 Guilty Spark

people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men and women stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

To abandon duty is to destroy that which makes any individual unique and capable of prodigious feats.

There's one other thing," I said. "Your father was wrong." "My father? Wrong about what?" "You said to me that he once told you that nobody ever thanks a soldier." I paused. "I want to thank you...for what you tried to do and what you did do. Thank you.

Many can't help faking happiness on account of social pressure. Happiness can be viewed as a social duty and sadness is socially not acceptable. ( "C'est quand le bonheur ?" )