Quotes About Duty

It is an everlasting duty, valid in our day as in that, the duty of being brave. Valor is still value. The first duty for a man is still that of subduing Fear. We must get rid of Fear; we cannot act at all till then. A man's acts are slavish, not true but specious; his very thoughts are false, he thinks too as a slave and coward, till he have got Fear under his feet.

The situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal: work it out therefrom; and working, believe, live, be free.

Man is without Duty round him; except it be "to make the Constitution." He is without Heaven above him, or Hell beneath him; he has no God in the world.

I began serving my country when I was 18 years old and entered the U.S. Naval Academy.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

I went to the Naval Academy in Annapolis and then I went right into the Navy after that.

I'm glad I was in the Navy.

I wanted to leave 'Eight Is Enough' for the Navy.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service.

It's very important for us as a group of Navy SEALs, to make sure that the message that we send to the country is that we're ready to serve any commander in chief, the elected head of the armed forces, that the people of the United States elect. That is our mission, that's our duty, as Navy SEALs.

My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

If you claim to represent and speak for the people, and they are forced to pay your salary, you have a duty to experience life as near as possible to the way others live it.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

We do our chores when chores are needed to be done.

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

Brexit is so important, it would have been neglect of duty to simply sit it out.

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

We must never forget or diminish the sacrifices of those who gave everything for this nation.

A new era of responsibility is here.

It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.