Quotes About Duty

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Hey, we have obligations. We all work for a living now.

I do not take my obligations as a senator lightly.

The most important thing to me as a practitioner has been fidelity to my obligations and to the law.

When children are conceived, both parties have duties and obligations toward all involved.

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

I have confidence in the responsibility of those who occupy a seat in the legislature.

I always thought,' I said, 'that a man became a cop to be shielded from his own criminality.

it shall be a duty and a pleasing sport to wander with Momus beneath the tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere.

Heros aren't defined by the way they die but how they live.

The Bible says there is a time for peace and a time for war. Now is the time for war. I cannot wait to say it is now a time for peace. — MAJ James Brisson, Chaplain, 1-160th SOAR, 19 October 2001, Afghanistan

For some, a hero wears a spandex suit and a cape. My heroes wear flak jackets, flight suits, and combat boots.

SGT Steven C. Ganczewski, a Ranger in editor Chuck Holton's unit, had been asked by a high-school guidance counselor why a young man with his potential would join the Army. Someone with his potential--as if selfless service, even to the point of giving one's life for a cause greater than any one of us--is somehow beneath one's potential. Thankfully, Patrick Henry and George Washington didn't feel that way in 1775.

we shall acquit ourselves with honor, that we may never bring shame upon our faith, our families, or our fellow men.

I believe in the meaning of honor and integrity. I am an action person who feels personally responsible for making any changes in this world that are in my power . . . because if I don't, no one else will. — Mike Spann, excerpt from his CIA application

out your mission and keep your honor clean.

Today those who stand, almost alone, against the Jihadis are young American soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen, and Marines. We should thank God that they still volunteer to serve.

the U.S. Army's seven core values embody the very qualities contained in Paul's first letter to the church he had planted in Corinth: Leadership, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage.

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.

Sometimes, what's right is not peaceful or passive. What matters is that you do not hide from the consequences. You bear what must be borne.

I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.

He was a soldier, and if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn't have known what they meant.