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Quotes About Duty

Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.
~ Jesse Lee Soffer
I feel it is my duty to help the migrants, the heartbeats of our country. We have seen migrants walking on the highways with their families and kids. We just can't sit in the AC and tweet and show our concern till we don't go on the roads, till we don't become one of them.
~ Sonu Sood
Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms.
~ Wesley Clark
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
~ Harry S Truman
Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.
~ Chris Kyle
On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
~ Martin Van Buren
Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. And I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.
~ George H. W. Bush
Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty.
~ Sallie Krawcheck
I think most people didn't want to do court duty.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.
~ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.
~ Harry S. Truman
If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.
~ Julian Barnes
There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.
~ Nadeem Aslam
Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.
~ Nancy Grace
Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.
~ Robert E. Lee
If you can't afford to take care of your # veterans , then don't go to war.
~ Bernie Sanders
I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
~ George S. Patton
They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.
~ Chester W. Nimitz
Duty is ours; consequences are God's.
~ Stonewall Jackson
A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling
~ Rudyard Kipling
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
~ Guy de Maupassant
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.
~ George Pickett