Quotes About Duty

They were the lowest in the army, and yet they bore the weight of kings.

I trust you with their lives,' Prof said, still writing, 'and them with yours. Don't betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.

Why do you care?" "Because someone has to.

We really have to do something about you ambivalence toward civic duty, kid." "I already overthrew one government," Vin said. "I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.

Honor is not dead so long as he lives in the hearts of men!

Religion worried him. It could ask men to do things they'd otherwise never do.

However," he continued, "duty should not be accepted without question. Duty can be a motive, but should not be an excuse.

But I still feel that I was basically luggage for most of the trip." He shrugged. "Steris, I think we're all like that. Shuffled from place to place by duty, or society, or God Himself. It seems like we're just along for the ride, even in our own lives. But once in a while, we do face a choice. A real one. We may not be able to choose what happens to us, or where we'll stop, but we point ourselves in a direction.

Remembering the fallen was important, but working to protect the living was more so.

I do what needs to be done." "Men say that so easily," Beldre said. "Yet, everybody seems to have a different opinion of what 'needs' to be done.

freedom was not lack of responsibilities—it was being able to do what was right, without having to worry if it was also wrong.

A man doesn't have to like his duty. He just has to do it." She

You can be moral without following the law, and you can be immoral while following the law.

Syl was silent for a moment. "Do you want to be a miracle?" "No," Kaladin whispered. "But for them, I will be.

Time to think like a guard. It was hard, as he didn't have a guard's hat.

those who led were the lowest of men, for they were required to serve everyone.

La libertad no era la ausencia de responsabilidad: era ser capaz de hacer lo que estaba bien, sin necesidad de preocuparse porque también pudiera estar mal.

He turned his mount and clopped up onto the bridge, then nodded his thanks to the bridgemen. They were the lowest in the army, and yet the bore the weight of kings.

A man doesn't have to like his duty. He just has to do it.

you don't wallow or mope. You aren't allowed that luxury; guilt is for lesser men. You simply need to do what is expected.

My lack of capacity doesn't change the kingdom's needs.

El honor ha muerto

If Taravangian killed a child, he'd do it not for vengeance. Not for fury. Not for wealth or renown. But because he sincerely thought the child's death was necessary. He would call it good, then? No. He would acknowledge it as evil, would say it stains his soul. He says... that's the point of having a monarch. A man to wallow in blood, to be stained by it and destroyed by it, so that others might not suffer.

An author's first duty is to let down his country.