Quotes About Duty

He added in typical Patton style, "There is one thing you men will be able to say when you go home. You may all thank God that 30 years from now when you are sitting with your grandson upon your knees and he asks: 'Grandfather, what did you do in World War II?' you won't have to say, 'I shovelled s**t in Louisiana!

Long after you'd graduated into an adult role, you still continued coming to him for these weekly lessons, but the lessons had turned into a flimsy pretense layered atop their real purpose: your delivery of provisions on which your old man depended. A few groceries, toilet paper, his various prescriptions. Putting things out so they'd be easy for him to access, wiping the floor as best you could.

1) Je ne suis pas un super-héros. 2) Il faut que j'aille travailler. 3) Si je ne devais pas aller au travail, alors je pourrais être un super-héros. 4) Si j'étais un super-héros, je ne serais pas obligé d'aller bosser.

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

I charge you, on your duty to God and to your father, that you keep up no feud, no hatred, but rather that you should deem me best revenged, when you have with heart and hand, given the fullest proof of forgiveness to your enemy.

The duty hardest to fulfil, To learn to yield our own self-will.

One more thing is of vital importance; children must have books, living books; the best are not too good for them; anything less than the best is not good enough; and if it is needful to exercise economy, let go everything that belongs to soft and luxurious living before letting go the duty of supplying the books, and the frequent changes of books, which are necessary for the constant stimulation of the child's intellectual life.

Children must have books, living books; the best are not too good for them; anything less than the best is not good enough; and if it is needed to exercise economy, let go everything that belongs to soft and luxurious living before letting go the duty of supplying the books, and the frequent changes of books, which are necessary for the constant stimulation of the child's intellectual life.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

This is not your responsibility but it is your problem.

Sometimes even the most highborn must swab out their own toilets.

The presidency itself is not a partisan institution. It's the one office in this nation that represents everyone and it demands a duty of care for all Americans.

Our country will remain "the land of the free" only so long as it is "the home of the brave."

Well, certainly, it seems that an Officer of Volunteers has many responsibilities... all work and no pay...

...the most agreeable of all duties, that of returning thanks...

Follow the seasons. Follow your heart. Lead by example. Lead with love, alongside simplicity and courage, embracing duty, shunning fear.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

I go where I love and where I am loved, into the snow; I go to the things I love with no thought of duty or pity; I go where I belong, inexorably, as the rain that has lain long from "The Flowering of the Rod [2]

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

A revolutionary must have solid foundation of revolutionary morality in order to fulfill his glorious revolutionary task.