Quotes About Duty

Honor and duty will ride upon my shoulders till the day I die, like the old man of the sea, who once picked up can never be put dow.

Just because we protect the world, it doesn't mean the world is always grateful.

Cursed with conscience and damned with duty, because that's how we always reward the best of us.

a young student had written to his father, justifying his decision to volunteer by declaring that "our liberty can only be assured if it will have for its bed a mattress of cadavers… I consent to become one of those cadavers.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

Service is not easy but necessary

Central to the stories in which people featured, was the bond of love with the concomitants: duty, obedience, responsibility, honor, and orderliness; always orderliness. Like the seasons of the year, life was depicted full of cause and effect, predictability and order; connectedness and oneness.

Qui procul hinc, the legend's writ,The frontier grave is far away—Qui ante diem periit:Sed miles, sed pro patria.

Stick close to your desks and never go to sea,And you all may be Rulers of the Queen's Navee!

The gratifying feeling that our duty has been done.

When constabulary duty's to be done,The policeman's lot is not a happy one.

His sense of duty, honor, rectitude. What made me want to scream one day could make me proud the next.

And, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do

RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me. Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Karma means ultimate responsibility. You even take responsibility for your genetics.

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.