Quotes About Duty

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

Love your country and fight for your country. Believe in truth, and that is enough

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

I would like to say that I helped out our men in uniform, but the truth is I probably just grumbled at the noise.

Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright

Service is the highest form of worship.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

His service to the family was honoured by a certain artificial equality of status.

As long as the patient lives, Marshal, we've done what we need to do.

You will do what looks good to you on paper / We will do what we must.

Princess Mary, William's wife, and Princess Anne cooperated in the ouster of their father, James II. It was, as Pocock continues, "a spectacular display of reason of state rising above the restraints of common morality; daughters dethroned their father, even the sanitized version of King Lear was hard to perform for many years, and what William of Orange and John Churchill severally did is still enough to take your breath away if you think about it.

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.

The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball, Peavine's book began, whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.

My grandfather went around to the back door. He did not care if his visit endangered the shopkeeper's life, but he wanted it to seem as though he did.

The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.

Livingstone had said sympathy was no substitute for action. That was an essential brick in Bosch's wall. He had built himself as a man of action and, at the moment when the integrity of his life's work had been called into question by a man on death row, he had chosen to turn his sympathy for Elizabeth Clayton into action.