Quotes About Duty

Herein fail not at your peril.

I'm sure one should do one's own job, however trivial, and not persuade one's self into doing somebody else's, however noble.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber

Because there are some things you have to do even if you are an enlightened liberal cop who knows all about sensitivity and everything!

My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber," he muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.

Me ha dicho el médico que tengo mal formada una glándula del deber social y una deficiencia congénita en la fibra moral y que por tanto estoy excusado de salvar universos.

Il mio medico dice che ho la ghiandola del dovere malformata e una deficienza congenita della fibra morale – mormorò fra sé, – e che quindi sono esentato dall'incarico di salvare universi.

He said it isn't easy being a cop.' 'Well surely that's his problem, isn't it?' 'I'd have thought so.

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!

My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber," he muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes." Nevertheless

The fact is, you lied about hearing something because you didn't want the management to know you were drunk on duty. Isn't that right?

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

What are you doing this afternoon, Griselda?" "My duty," said Griselda. "My duty as the Vicaress. Tea and scandal at four thirty.

It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.

I can admire the perfect murderer--I can also admire a tiger-- that splendid tawny-striped beast. But I will admire him from outside his cage. I will not go inside. That is to say, not unless it is my duty to do so. For you see, Mr. Shaitana, the tiger might spring. . . .

I've become a killer of the Lord. It's the Lord's will that I should kill you. So that makes it all right. You do see that, don't you? You see, it makes it all right.

The police, as servants of law, must be of a high order of integrity. For their word is perforce believed by the virtue of their profession.

Modern novels. So difficult—all about such unpleasant people, doing such very odd things and not, apparently, even enjoying them. "Sex" as a word had not been mentioned in Miss Marple's young days; but there had been plenty of it—not talked about so much—but enjoyed far more than nowadays, or so it seemed to her. Though usually labelled Sin, she couldn't help feeling that that was preferable to what it seemed to be nowadays—a kind of Duty.

There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

But self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

Even God would say"Finish the task you have undertaken". He would never recommend breaking her mother's heart, damaging her parents' lives. "Your mother and then your mother and then your mother," the Prophet had said, "and then your father." But what about her own life? What is to become of that?

The opposite concept of the Latin religio should be sought in the Latin verb negligere. To be religious is synonymous with responsibility, not neglect. To be responsible is to be free—to possess the concrete means of exercising free action. At the same time, to be free is also to be connected to others by a common spirituality.