Quotes About Duty

I was glad to have the opportunity, but now I am glad to be rid of it. The constant violence, or the impending threat of it, and the toll of seeing so many casualties, over time, has enveloped me in an environment that weighs as heavily as a wool shroud even on pleasant days. To be the tiller at the wheel of man's hatred for man should be a tour of duty, not a career. - Ashley Crandall

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

I still think we need to stick to our original plan," Bell said. "We brought him into this world, it's up to us to send him away.

Seguiré siendo testigo aun cuando no haya un solo ser humano que me pida mi estimonio

Darf der Mensch wohl alles tun, was recht ist, oder muß er sich damit begnügen, daß nur alles recht ist, was er tut?

It is women who must clean up the mess men make, the mess everything makes:

The principle of a good will, therefore, is to do only those actions whose maxims can be conceived as having the form of a law. If there is such a thing as moral obligation – if, as Kant himself says, "duty is not to be as such an empty delusion and a chimerical concept" (4:402) – then we must establish that our wills are governed by this principle: "I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

Había que sobrevivir. Ése era nuestro primer deber. Nuestro primer combate. Rebelarse significaba, en primer lugar, vivir. O más bien: seguir vivo.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

The poor soldiers always do their duty in the most brilliant manner; but as soon as matters come again into the hands of politicians and diplomats, everything is again spoiled and confused.

They who would isolate themselves from the world and its duties must cease to know and to care, as well as to act, and be content to let things take their course. This in effect they cannot do; this they never do; and the only result is a struggle in which they neither live nor die — neither live as they wish, in the past, nor do their duty in the working world.

Women are responsible for the people in the family having pants.

There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.

If she had truly been sent by God, she would not wear men's clothes in contravention of God's law and the Church's teaching. The nature of her supposed mission was no excuse for this abomination, since no 'greater' good could ever justify sin – and in any case women were forbidden to fight, just as they were forbidden to preach, to teach, to administer the sacraments, and all other duties that belonged to men.

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory. I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal men in all the countries of the world, who, in the oscillation of national egoisms let loose, stand up and stand out, steadfast as the glorious statues of Right and Duty.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

I have another duty equally sacred… My duty to myself.

Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: they sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

This is the army! Nobody can do the best they can.

Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she treat you ill or well, and never let selfish views or interests predominate over the duties of patriotism.

Off with your hat as the flag goes by!