Quotes About Duty

Somehow, when his duties had consisted of killing hostile Sioux and Cheyenne, Zane had been able to justify the situation. Those groups were warring against the wagon trains and refusing to follow government instructions. Many tribes saw the whites as an impossible threat, refusing to even try to get along. But the Blackfoot had been friendly. For the most part. Mountain

Every damsel in distress deserves a hero...

Dianthe wanted her to be the hero, the hardened flyer doing her part to win the war. But she wasn't a hero. She was a romantic. A foolish one, probably, giving up everything for the boy she loved.

I know you value the rules, but sometimes . . . sometimes breaking them is the right thing to do. I

Why does anyone fight a war? To protect a way of life, to find or support loved ones. To avenge those lost. Or maybe because it's a calling. Because someone has to. Because there's a line no enemy should be allowed to cross.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.

Who must do the harsh things? He who can.

The historian Major-General Sir David Stewart of Garth described them as an 'excellent, orderly regiment of well-behaved serviceable men, fit for any duty' and the novelist Sir Walter Scott used his journal to call them a 'regiment of Sutherland giants'. (One of their number was Samuel McDonald, a native of Lairg, who was seven feet four inches tall. Throughout the army he was known as 'Big Sam'.)

Leia: 'Han, what have we done?' Han: 'The same thing we always have, Princess. What we had to.' --Leia Organa Solo and Han Solo

WITH ALL, COOPERATION. FOR ALL, RESPECT. ABOVE ALL, HONOR.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

Would you be a good parent if you despised your children? Would you be a good officer if you didn't care about the lives of your soldiers?

There were more important things than becoming queen. Stopping

She would have pointed out that Sundew had a duty to marry Mandrake and raise superpowered danger-babies to destroy their enemies.

His mother taught him how to keep watch and how to fight and how to defend his queen at all costs. His father taught him how to make camel shish kebab and date soufflé.

Read this scroll, sweep this cave, catch that exact fish, kill that misbehaving prisoner — whatever it was, he did it, no questions asked. (Well. He'd wanted to ask questions about the prisoner. Such as: Why did anyone bring a mud dragon to the secret night dragon home in the first place?

And if you have time, please could you also make sure she's not arrested for treason? That would be great, thanks.

And a new reason to hope that Queen Oasis lives for a very, very long time. The night Queen Oasis died, Six-Claws and Dune were off duty.

Almost ready, sir,' said the sweating, harassed bosun. 'I'm working the cunt-splice myself.' 'Well,' said Jack, hurrying off to where the stern-chaser hung poised above the Sophie's quarter-deck, ready to plunge through her bottom if gravity could but have its way, 'a simple thing like a cunt-splice will not take a man of war's bosun long, I believe.

they know they are in the Navy – they have chosen their cake, and must lie on it.' 'You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.' 'No, no, it is not quite that, neither.

Jack broke off. He had seen a very great deal of drunkenness in the Navy; drunken admirals, post-captains, commanders, drunken ship's boys ten years old, and he had been trundled aboard on a wheelbarrow himself before now; but he disliked it on duty – he disliked it very much indeed, above all at such an hour in the morning.

was an officer holding out his sword