Quotes About Duty

Don't die for the country! Don't die for the love! Don't die for anything! Always choose life! Under every circumstance this is your real duty in life!

Bound by Love, But sworn to Kill.

Duty without love is deplorable.

Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service. It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.

I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

This is a camp. For children. Which means we have a duty of care. I'm responsible for every single person on these grounds. No strangers around the kids. No people kayaking at night on the lake.

Stevie looked around for Janelle to help her, but Janelle was busy demonstrating proper sand-in-bottle technique to some kids. Some would have called this doing her job, but to Stevie, this was abandonment.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1958–1981. Section 5, Grave 40-2, Arlington National Cemetery.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1958–1981.

From 1973 onward, if nine intelligence analysts came to the same conclusion, it was the duty of the tenth to disagree. No matter how unlikely or far-fetched a possibility might be, one must always dig deeper.

We were taught that, even if we wore a uniform, that our first sworn duty was to our conscience, no matter what the consequences.

We were taught since birth to bear the burden of our grandfathers' shame. We were taught that, even if we wore a uniform, that our first sworn duty was to our conscience, no matter what the consequences

Ni siquiera el ejército era un bastión del patriotismo, sino un lugar donde aprender un oficio, conseguir comida y cama, y, quizá, incluso un poco de dinero que enviar a casa cuando el gobierno decidió que resultaba conveniente pagar a sus soldados.

8Whoever does not care for his own relatives, especially his own family members, has turned against the faith and is worse than someone who does not believe in God.

The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it. Most people swallow the unacceptable because it makes life so much easier. At what point does one feel that doing battle, however painful and rending, is necessary?

To those who are given much, much is expected.

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, 'Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.

Her world was bordered on all sides with work, duty, religion and her place. I don't think she ever knew that a deep-brooding love hung over everything she touched.