Quotes About Duty

It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code.

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

If I saw and if I really sincerely thought that what Putin is doing is harmful for my country and for my people and it needs to be stopped, I wouldn't hesitate to do that.

Stopping bad things is a significant public service.

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'

It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.

it is the duty of the Government, through its servants, to protect the lives and property of the citizens, especially the innocent, unoffending citizens.

I don't want awesome powers. They come with awesome responsibilities, and those suck.

The Greeks believed that it was a citizen's duty to watch a play. It was a kind of work in that it required attention, judgement, patience, all the social virtues." "And the Greek were conquered by the more practical Romans, Arthur." "Indeed, the Romans built their bridges, but they also spent many centuries wishing they were Greeks. And they, after all, were conquered by the barbarians, or by their own corrupt and small spirits.

There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune," Roosevelt said just before he became president.

There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune," Roosevelt said just before he became president.

Ésa es la máxima responsabilidad. Asúmela por completo».

If you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you. But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no.

patriotism involves serving your own country.

If you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you.

Professional ethics must guide us precisely when we are told that the situation is exceptional. Then there is no such thing as "just following orders".

If I don't wield the sword, I can't protect you. If I keep wielding the sword, I can't embrace you. -Ichigo Kurosaki

Don't do the things in life as duties. Take and do it as a RESPONSIBILITY.

Forse non te ne rendi conto, ma i tuoi genitori ti hanno insegnato la sola cosa, mica l'educazione, o il rispetto, o l'onestà, o altre balle del genere. Quelle vengono dopo, vengono da sole, se tua madre o tuo padre ti danno l'unica cosa che tutti i genitori dovrebbero dare ai figli. L'unico DOVERE che hanno, proprio L'UNICA COSA: la gioia di vivere...

C'è un discorso che Gandhi fa nel 1909 in cui si guarda attorno e si chiede «Cos'è la vera civiltà? La civiltà nasce da un tipo di comportamento che indica all'uomo il sentiero del dovere [...], l'osservanza della moralità. Raggiungere la moralità significa raggiungere la padronanza della nostra mente e delle nostre passioni».

It is part of my duty as a decent member of my local hamlet to mow the grass in front of the church. It's a pleasant little task and mowing is a favorite activity of mine; it gives me a lot of pleasure to make the churchyard look tidy. I sometimes pause at the grave of someone or other and speculate what he might have been like when he was alive, but gravestones don't tell much.