Quotes About Duty

Tushin did not tell him that there were no covering troops, though that was the plain truth. He was afraid to let down another officer that way and silently, with fixed eyes, looked straight into Bagration's face, as a confused student looks into his examiner's eyes.

man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our bread in the sweat of our brows, but because our moral nature is such that we cannot be both idle and at ease. An inner voice tells us we are in the wrong if we are idle. If man could find a state in which he felt that though idle he was fulfilling his duty, he would have found one of the conditions of man's primitive blessedness.

Cowardice is knowing what you should do and then not doing it. Confucius

An inner voice tells us we are in the wrong if we are idle.

Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes—love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

I did not expect this of you,' said the staff-captain seriously and severely. 'You don't wish to apologize, young sir, but it's not only to him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you're to blame all around. The

You are not to be guarded in your actions either by what has been or what will be, but only by what it is your own duty to do.

find a state in which he felt that though idle he was fulfilling his duty, he would have found one of the conditions of man's primitive blessedness. And such a state of obligatory and irreproachable idleness is the lot of a whole class- the military. The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.

Datoria ... o pasiune f?r? bucurie.

I read the bill of human rights And some of it was true But there wasn't any burden left So I'm laying it on you

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

You of the North in general take love too soberly and seriously. You talk of duties where there should be only a question of pleasure.

but you want faithfulness without love from the woman and giving of herself without pleasure Ã¢â'¬â€œ so who is the cruel one Ã¢â'¬â€œ the man or the woman? In the north you take love too seriously. You speak of duty, where you should only talk of satisfaction.

We are faithful as long as we love, but you demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving of herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man? You of the North in general take love too soberly and seriously. You talk of duties where there should be only a question of pleasure.

Dickens believed that a reasonable capitalistic society could be made to recognize its responsibility to all its citizens, and that it was the duty of those most fortunate to share a portion of their gain with those whose grasp had slipped while pulling at their bootstraps.

he formed a lifelong commitment to the distinction between "justice" and "the law.

Every hard duty that lies in your path, that you would rather not do, that it will cost you pain and struggle or sore effort to do, has a blessing in it. Not to do it, at whatever cost, is to miss the blessing.

We must learn to take God at His Word, and go straight on in duty, although we see no way in which we can go forward. The reason we are so often balked by difficulties is that we expect to see them removed before we try to pass through them.

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

There are things that a man must do, that a god may not. He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

For every hero, don't legions of foot soldiers have to die in the background? It was a matter of numbers, like the corpse in the castle said. Just work out the sums.

To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty.

Not all men, of course, care to think seriously of death, but all men, in normal circumstances, run spontaneously from danger, unless to risk it is their duty or their pleasure.