Quotes About Duty

The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Let's cut the top rates of stamp duty to enable more movement to take place and also looking at the broader tax reform, simplifying our tax system.

If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

when the ethics of your profession conflict with your ethics as a human being, well, then there's just something wrong with your profession

Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Belle, so brave and noble—willing to take her father's place as a prisoner in the castle dungeon. What sort of woman would do that—give up her life so easily, sacrificing her freedom for her father's?

Nicht umsonst sagt meine Frau immer: "Dich interessiert alles, außer deinen ehelichen Pflichten." Meine Frau versteht unter ehelichen Pflichten in erster Linie Nüchternheit.

Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.

My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.

I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

The role of Empress became a full-time occupation.

But he never threw a fight when the fight was right So they sent him to the war

Part of him wanted to throw her down onto the straw and have done with it. For there was no surer way of losing desire for a woman than to take your fill of her. But he sensed that Eleni might be slow to realise that her duty was to please her sheikh in every aspect that he demanded. His mouth curved into a smile. She would soon learn.

The House Commander had a strong vocabulary, indeed. The rumor was that each commander logged every curse word in a massive book, kept under lock and key, and that adding to this book had been the sacred duty of Benoit Commanders for centuries.

My own master's instruction was that, when one is sorely tried, and the wisdom of the past has failed, it is our duty to find new wisdom from which to shape the future.

I am doing something I learned early to do, I am paying attention to small beauties, whatever I have-as if it were our duty to find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world.

Because I was raised to believe that every man has a responsibility, and the strongest man has the heaviest responsibilities...

but it was my duty to warn her before she ruined her future with her headstrong ways. Much as I wanted her to be safe and happy, I never had much luck talking sense into Zona. She was always dead set on doing whatever she pleased, and she was always sure that she knew best. That quarrel between us blew over, as they always did, but I didn't hold out much hope that she would remember my warning, even though I had told her the plain truth.

The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.