Quotes About Duty

Mother, where did you find the courage?' …' Courage, Johnny? I don't know. We just do blindly the thing we think is right...What was it that moved me: love? Duty? Ambition? All three. Now I have my reward in full measure.' -p. Abigail to Johnny, Those Who Love, p. 564

It is as much my job to prevent harm to mankind as a whole as yours is to prevent harm to man as an individual.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!

Never let your sense of morals keep you from doing what is right.

Nunca permitas que el sentido de la moral te impida hacer lo que está bien!

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Don't be so blinded by your morals you fail to do what's right.

A soldier who serves an emperor has to have a uniform, and this also applies to a soldier who serves the Almighty.

con la idea tallada a cincel en su mente de que ayudar al perseguido es un deber moral ineludible.

The young soldier was part of the "Baby Bottle Conscription," the boys called up when there were no more men, young or old, to fight the war.

Pedro Tercero tuvo que renunciar a sus paseos al pueblo, porque su padre lo requería a su lado. Lo secundaba de mal humor, haciéndole notar que se partían el lomo por volver a poner en pie la riqueza del patrón, pero que ellos seguían siendo tan pobres como antes. —Siempre ha sido así, hijo. Usted no puede cambiar la ley de Dios —le replicaba su padre.

Quién más sabe, más obligación tiene hacia la humanidad.

I have the duty to protect my people, hurt my enemy, do the best I can with as few uninvolved casualties as possible - I can't have zero innocent casualties - and at minimum risk to the lives of our soldiers.

Moses Montefiore loved Jerusalem, lived for Jerusalem, and even made it our family motto. A Zionist before the word was invented, he believed in the sacred idea of Jewish return as a religious Jew's duty, and in Jewish statehood.

My time in war zones have been fleeting and infrequent. I've been to Iraq. I've been to Afghanistan. I've been to other places where I've collected hazardous duty pay.

To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is.

For so must it be, and help me do my part.

It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.

He will hew the line of right, let the chips fall where they may.

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.

Here am I; send me.

Do well and right, and let the world sink.

Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.