Quotes About Duty

Bien sea de hombre a hombre, bien sea de hombre a pueblo, siempre será igualmente descabellado este discurso: Celebro contigo un contrato en el cual todos los deberes están a tu cargo y todos los beneficios están a mi favor; contrato, que respetaré mientras se me dé la gana y que tú observarás mientras se me dé la gana.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.

Slow down, Sallie." Tom puts a hand on my arm, and then in a gentler voice says, "Your aunt will be okay. We'll see to that." "She wouldn't have got hurt if I'd been there." "Sallie, I don't know if that's true, and you don't either. But I do know you couldn't stay in Hatfield when the Duke sent for you. You had to come back. You had no choice.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.

The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself.

A right is nothing more than the other aspect of duty.

Undoubtedly, on his death bed, at that moment when, ever since Socrates, it has been proper to pronounce certain elevated words, he told his wife, as one of my uncles told his, who had watched beside him for twelve nights, I do not thank you, Therese; you have only done your duty.

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

I love the military. They don't get nearly enough credit for all the hard work they do to protect us, keep us in a safe place so we can enjoy ourselves every day.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

Boy, the things I do for England.

In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.

Without work men are utterly undone

A job is a job. And I like to work.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.