Quotes About Duty

Loving a warrior is hard. Dying in the line of duty is an honor to them. They would rather take that road than to dishonor their sacred oath

Do you remember a time when men were men? When they would do anything for love, for their friends or for their country?'No, I don't, but at least I would love to read about those men!

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Never ever seek for gratefulness from mankind, you shall always see ungratefulness. Do what you must do as a solemn duty and that is what you have to do!

The true soldier fights

Love & Passion for Motherland is NaturalServing with Respect to Home Land is Necessary

? doesn't wait to be told there's a need, it sees. ? never justifies a wrong, it repents. ? cannot retire, it has much to much work to do.

The view that government's role is to serve as an umpire to prevent individuals from coercing one another was replaced by the view that government's role is to serve as a parent charged with the duty of coercing

Cea dintâi È™i singura esenÈ›ial? datorie a omului este caritatea, adic? o neobosit? justificare a bucuriei existenÈ›ei. A face din viaÈ›a È™i cunoaÈ™terea ta o permanent? bucurie – în pofida tuturor mizeriilor, È™i întunecimilor, È™i p?catelor, È™i neputinÈ›elor, È™i dezn?dejdilor – iat? o datorie cu adev?rat viril?, o datorie a omului È™i a datoriei din tine.

W]e must leave in order to achieve distance... a new perspective that is rational, understanding, AND loving and obedient, and in keeping with our faith... It is our duty to leave. Not fighting, but moving on.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to. Sometimes because they want to. Always, they fell they are supposed to.

Was it possible, he wondered, that every human is sentenced to a particular lifelong exercise of will, with a duty to accept it with grace and strength?

Arif expended so much energy defining himself in opposition to other people, other musical tastes, other fashions, other views, other politics, other members of his own family that he was too exhausted to know who he really was. He thought she was weak and he was strong because he rebelled and she did not. But it took strength to work hard and do your duty, and it was she who had what she wanted in this world. He didn't even know what he wanted. She felt sorry for him.

To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.

To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.-Montaigne

We cannot be bound beyond what we are able to perform, by reason that effect and performance are not at all in our power, and that, indeed, we are masters of nothing but the will, in which, by necessity, all the rules and whole duty of mankind are founded and established.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

he thought how little the rest of the world should matter to him, when he was secure in the good opinion of those he valued most, and in the knowledge that he was doing his duty.

If they cannot be woken to a natural affection for their country, such as we feel, it is our fault and not theirs.