Quotes About Duty

So I do my duty," Sharpe said, "and land in the shit." "You have at last seized the essence of soldiering," Hogan said

And when you speak with him," I said, "tell him to stop hitting his wife." Erkenwald jerked as though I had just struck him in the face. "It is his Christian duty," he said stiffly, "to discipline his wife, and it is her duty to submit. Did you not listen to what I preached?

Some Gods are wicked, Derfel. And besides, they have no duty to us, only we to them. Maybe it amused them?

name's sake.' The men called out amen and some

had given an oath and honor binds us to paths we might not choose.

If the purpose of life was to be an unpredictable, murderous tyrant, then it would be easy to be godlike, but I suspected we had a different duty and that was to try to make the world better.

our oaths.' He advanced down the path

If a man breaks an oath he has no honour

You told these bastards they had till New Year's Day?' 'Yes, sir.' 'Then break your word, Major. Go and kill them at Christmas instead.' 'Yes, sir.

So much is expected of a king. He must be brave i battle, wise i council, just in judgement.

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

Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

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

I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

The conception of duty, speaking historically, has been a means used by the holders of power to induce others to live for the interests of their masters rather than for their own.

The conception of duty has been a means used by the holders of power to induce others to live for the interests of their masters rather than for their own.

Because work is a duty, and a man should not receive wages in proportion to what he has produced, but in proportion to his virtue as exemplified by his industry.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

I have no choices left to me at all. I shall marry my cousin, sire children, and do all that is expected of me.

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.

Peter and John answered them, "Whether it's right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide." Acts 4:19

Never, ever do the easy wrong instead of the harder right.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.