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Quotes About Duty

Pooper scooper? Yeah, I've done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to.
~ Kobe Bryant
I always tell people that being the mayor of an urban city for eight years was like getting run over by a truck every day. There's inner satisfaction, but 24 hours a day, every day, I'm on duty.
~ Lois Frankel
Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
~ Liam Neeson
America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.
~ Steve Buyer
Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.
~ Anthony Kennedy
Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.
~ Sebastian Junger
Our duty as concerned citizens is to educate ourselves so that we can recognize and report trafficking to the proper authorities.
~ Chris Hansen
It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.
~ Mark Oliphant
I have never been a traitor. I am not an informer; I never betrayed my nation.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
~ Henry Kissinger
There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save a human life, you must. There isn't any conflict in my mind.
~ Sebastian Junger
This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.
~ John Quincy Adams
'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
~ Hanif Kureishi
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.
~ Henry Morton Stanley
Act only on the maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
~ Sissela Bok
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
~ Sivananda
It's not easy to kill; it's not supposed to be. If it is, then there's something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.
~ Skip Coryell
How is it possible to serve God, and even to suffer for Him, without doing so out of love? Experience tells us that we can serve the Lord out of many motivations: guilt, a desire to be noticed, sheer duty. But the highest motivation for serving Him is love.
~ Skip Heitzig
Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you...
~ Socrates
Hayat k?sa, vazife a??r, f?rsatlar geçicidir.
~ Socrates
responsabilité. Parfois, lorsque la porte de la cellule s'ouvre, le prisonnier choisit de ne pas s'évader.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
You always underestimated me. You thought you made me harmless when you gave angelhood to me. You forgot that some angels are warriors. Where there's warriors, there's war. I will fight to the death. It's my duty. I am not afraid.
~ Sonya Hartnett
To exert his power in doing good is man?s most glorious task.
~ Sophocles
Heroes are the saints of every nation.
~ Sorin Cerin