Quotes About Duty

The National Award is a matter of pride for me, and it has also increased my responsibilities towards the country.

The men and women that have served this country, I'm forever indebted to them.

Ferguson learned the identity of his target and remarked, "I could have lodged half a dozen balls in or about him before he was out of my reach. But it was not pleasant to fire at the back of an unoffending individual who was acquitting himself coolly of his duty, and so I left him alone." To his decent forbearance, America owes an incalculable debt.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Every man, by consulting his own heart, may easily know whether he is or is not a patriot. But it is not so easy for the by-standers.

In the Islamic world, to welcome a traveler in one's home and treat him as best as possible is the believer's duty. To be hospitable (misafirperver), he explains, means that for you, a good Muslim, it is your duty to treat your guest (misafir), the traveler, with the utmost respect.

We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.

Joie : Le devoir de tout homme est de cultiver sa joie intérieure.

Be a girl of duty not a girl of beauty because beauty spoil ur duty while duty make u beauty.

también era leal, claro, pero como un capitán ante el general. Troy, como un soldado.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

Small wonder that love would break under circumstances like these. Standing there in the soddie door, she seemed two personalities. One argued bitterly that it was impossible for love to keep going when there was no hope for the future, suggested that there was no use trying to keep it going. The other said sternly that marriage was not the fulfillment of a passion, - marriage was the fulfillment of love. And love was sometimes pleasure and sometimes duty.

Standing there in the soddie door, she seemed two personalities. One argued bitterly that it was impossible for love to keep going when there was no hope for the future, suggested that there was no use trying to keep it going. The other said sternly that marriage was not the fulfillment of a passion,—marriage was the fulfillment of love. And love was sometimes pleasure and sometimes duty.

You can't describe love, Kathie, and you can't define it. Only it goes with you all your life. I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty...and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes...I think that is what love is to a woman...a lantern in her hand.

The other said sternly that marriage was not the fulfillment of a passion,—marriage was the fulfillment of love. And love was sometimes pleasure and sometimes duty.

She will be mired in responsibilities that are not of her own making. She will charm, and beneath her charm, she will regret.

The highest hope of Socrates' peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.

Karma-yoga is a supreme secret indeed.

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

Duty! Duty, judgement! I have heard enough of duty. And of judgement. You cloak your lust for vengeance and for gold and diamonds in the noble words of duty and judgement and protection and sacrifice. But it is the weakest and the poorest and the most innocent who suffer, who sacrifice, whose every minute of every day is obedience to duty.

Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

The coronavirus is not Donald Trump's fault, but he does bear responsibility for our response and taking his duty seriously. It's about doing the job as a president. His failures and his delays continue. We continue to see it. And it's caused a real pain for so many Americans.

I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.