Quotes About Duty

I am a warrior. I kill because I must. I kill to protect those who cannot protect themselves—and you did not thank me for saving your life, but you are welcome, just the same.

He didn't want to puff her up. Puffed-up women are one of the original sources of trouble in the world. If anyone knew that, it was he. He counted it as one of his duties to mankind to keep women from puffing themselves up, though it had been a most monumental duty in his own marriage. A job requiring a hero. It was one of those things that God, being male, questioned you about before you were let into heaven, and he was proud to say that he hadn't neglected it.

Courage not aligned with a higher good isn't always positive—a burglar can be plenty courageous as he robs you blind.

Now that she's going to drive out the English and crown Charles VII, who's going to look after the cows?

Thankfully, we are not left to our own devices, even if it feels like it. The Church clearly teaches us about what is sinful and what isn't, and our duties. We simply must catechize ourselves in the Traditional Catholic Faith.

Would you like to join your sister and the others? Or would you like a reprieve from the crowd?... Thank you, but I don't need a reprieve from my duty and I never will. There's a boast that's likely to come back like a bad cold.

el físico templario cuya única receta para curar sus males había sido que siempre actuara de acuerdo con su conciencia.

Queen Marie of Romania, who once wrote: 'We are hardly ever arbiters of our own Fate: We must move, do, live, according to our several duties and our own desires and wishes have to be fitted in with what we can do more often than what we desire to do'.

I shall have one, too," he told her. "So that you don't feel alone." She tried not to smile. "That is most generous of you." "I am quite certain it is my gentlemanly duty." "To eat cake?" "It is one of the more appealing of my gentlemanly duties," he allowed.

He made her miserable!" Benedict protested. "As her brothers, it's our duty to--" "Respect her intelligence enough to let her solve her own problems," Violet snapped.

He wanted her. He wanted her completely. But his family was waiting for him at supper, and his ancestors were staring down at him from their portrait frames, and *she* - the woman in question - was watching him with a wariness that broke his heart.

Wyndham was a bore, in his humble opinion, but everything he did, every last decision and action - they were for others. It was all for Wyndham - the heritage, not the person. It was impossible not to respect such a man. But this was different. The duke wasn't standing up for his people, he was standing up for one person. It was a far more difficult thing to do.

I've always said the first duty of life is to live it, and I do believe that. And we delude ourselves if we think it's not going to end. How we individually meet that, I think, is entirely individual.

In high school, I enlisted in the Army and served in the 25th Infantry Division.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

My father instilled attention to detail and a sense of duty and responsibility.

For me, personally, I feel like that's my duty while I'm on this earth is to serve others and use my blessing to bless others. If I'm not doing that, I feel like I'm not serving my purpose. That's my goal, that's my passion, and that's what I intend to do for the rest of my life.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.

An actor's got a serious duty to perform. God's given him the gift to interpret his creatures. He has to do that honestly and conscientiously.

She was America-for-spacious-skies, the reason our boys died gladly in the war.

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.