Quotes About Duty

The greatest thing that I had in my life was those moments with my dad that I sacrificed. I looked at him as a soldier. He's a wounded soldier. It's my duty as a human to take care of this soldier.

I am classified as a disabled veteran. The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff.

Once you're in the military, she means a lot more to you than just a grandmother. She is the queen. And then you suddenly, it's like start realizing, you know, wow, this is quite a big deal. And then you get goose bumps and then the rest of it.

This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will be held accountable if things useful to the soul are not disseminated by his works and if nothing remains after him as a precept for mankind.

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

A fellow needed two names, one for affection and the other for civic duty.

belongs. I can't afford so much as a footman to scour Saint Petersburg." "You must afford it. It is said, 'One

Feeling right" is about living the life that's right for you—in occupation, location, marital status, and so on. It's also about virtue: doing your duty

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier

I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it's of no importance to me, who put us here on earth to do our duty as citizens and fathers; but I don't need to go to church and kiss silver platters and dig into my pocket to fatten up a lot of humbugs who eat better than you or I do! Because he can be worshiped just as well in a wood, a field, or even just gazing at the ethereal vault, like the ancients.

one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us

Az a kötelességünk, hogy ráérezzünk arra, ami magasrend?, imádjuk azt, ami szép, nem pedig hogy elfogadjunk minden társadalmi konvenciót azzal a sok gyalázatos dologgal együtt, amit ránk kényszerítenek.

Ah, ancora disse Rodolphe. Sempre i doveri; sono stufo di quelle parole. Eccoli lì: un mucchio di vecchi buoni a nulla, rinvoltati nella flanella, e di bigotte con lo scaldino e il rosario, che ci cantano eternamente nelle orecchie: Il dovere! Il dovere!. Eh, perbacco! Il dovere significa sentire ciò che è grande, amare ciò che è bello, e non accettare tutte le convenzioni della società con le ignominie che c'impone.

Il dovere! Il dovere, perbacco! Il dovere è di sentire ciò che è grande, di coltivare ciò che è bello, e non d'accettare tutte le convenzioni della società con gli obbrobri ch'essa c'impone. Perchè infierire contro le passioni? Non sono, forse, l'unica cosa bella al mondo, la sorgente dell'eroismo, della poesia, della musica, dell'arte, di ogni cosa, insomma?

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. [ On Water ]

Military men are the scourges of the world.

The love between man and woman is a voluntary pact in which the one who falls short is only guilty of perfidy, but when a woman has become a mother her duty is greater because nature has entrusted the human species to her. If she fails then she is a coward, unworthy and infamous.

Full moon is falling through the sky. Cranes fly through clouds. Wolves howl. I cannot find rest Because I am powerless To amend a broken world. Sima Zian added, I love the man who wrote that, I told you before, but there is so much burden in Chan Du. Duty, assuming all tasks, can betray arrogance. The idea we can know what must be done, and do it properly. We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is.

Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right.

The only obligation I recognize in this world is my duty to my immediate family