Quotes About Duty

We have to be more courageous and braver and sometimes take a knock. You can't just be a pretty boy, you have to get your body or something on it. When it is a one-on-one situation you have to carry out that duty.

Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

For the mission's sake, for our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in past battles - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

It is the duty of every parent, citizens, yours and mine to strengthen among boys the sense of respect towards women.

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.

I have so much respect for our troops.

We owe it to our troops to make policy that strengthens America now and in the future.

The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.

As all presidents must, Trump swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, and to faithfully execute his office and the laws in accordance with the Constitution. That oath requires putting the national interests above his personal interests.

Donald Trump will never turn his back on those who serve and protect us at home and abroad.

Law enforcement officers must carry out their sacred duty to protect and serve in a way that earns the trust of our communities.