Quotes About Duty

He heard a rushing of feet and a great terrible voice calling 'All hands, all hands ahoy! Out or down! Out or down! Rouse and bitt! Rise and shine! Show a leg there! Out or down! Here I come, with a sharp knife and a clear conscience!

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

Nelson once said that love of his country served him for a greatcoat.

He was conscientious, he did his duty as he understood it; but he was no seaman.

Perhaps I am no great judge of what is honourable, sir,' said Dillon. 'I speak as a mere fighting man.

In the First Book of Chronicles Chapter 24 Verse 10…

La juventud no está hecha para el placer, sino para el heroísmo

I HAVE been around at a time when important things needed to be done

They all held that man is meant to serve God.

More than ever knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect children and kill for them if necessary.

knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect children and kill for them if necessary. It comes to a person most clearly when he has daughters.

Each surrender was for her the pledge that another surrender would be demanded of her, and she acquitted herself of each as though of a duty performed; it was odd that she should have been completely satisfied by it, and yet she was. Sir

I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness. I woke and discovered that life was Duty. I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness.

To realise one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.

A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep.

Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities...

What shall I do? she asked in a small voice. Forget your own self, he said. But all these years, she urged, I have so carefully fulfilled my duty. Always with the thought of your own freedom in your mind, he said. She could not deny it. She sat motionless, her hands folded on the pearl-gray satin of her robe. Direct me, she said at last. Instead of your own freedom, think how you can free others, he said gently. She lifted her head. From yourself, he said still gently.

It was not enough that she had never loved him. Love had nothing to do with responsibility.

One would have said he was his son's servant rather than his father.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Fatherland before everything, art afterward.

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.