Quotes About Duty

Deciding whether to confirm a president's nominee for the highest court in the land is a responsibility I take very seriously.

I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't think that's always helpful.

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

Huge numbers of people in London depend on their cars. Fuel duty is becoming a big factor in people's cost of living. I believe in trying to ease these burdens.

As lawmakers, we swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

I was raised with a sense of duty, obedience and guilt.

Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

It is simply a moral obligation to make sure our nation's heroes have a home to return to at night.

There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.

I'm bothered when people don't understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.

For me, motivation is like obligation.

Laws are there for a reason, and we have an obligation to follow them.

My ultimate responsibility is to the folks that elected me here in the commonwealth, so I am acutely aware of that obligation and commitment.