Quotes About Duty

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

For most of us, fidelity is faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. For the men and women of the FBI, fidelity also means fidelity to country. It means fidelity to justice and the law, fidelity to the Constitution, fidelity to equality and liberty.

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.

Turgenev's achievement lies in how he succeeded, in spite of himself, his country, and his time, in exempting his work from public duty. This has given it that unnameable quality that makes every sentence true, every silence trustworthy.

Brethren, let us mind our own business - that is, the calling the Lord has called us to - to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, 'What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?'

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

Boys do what they want to do, Men do what they need to do.

The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.

Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to be done.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

It's not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That's not a problem at all.

At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.

Sometimes, life isn't about what you want to do but what you ought to do.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

I'm not a god in the traditional fashion, I am a patron. Patrons have responsibilities. Granted, I rarely have the opportunity to exercise them.