Quotes About Duty

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

What-e're thou art, Act well thy part.

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

What e'er thou art, act well thy part.

Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Bhakti is expressed through our service attitude.

When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.

You do what you're called on to do, to the best of your abilities. The rest always takes care of itself.

concern. She was serious and responsible

and the other patrolman had called for

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

This was selfish and wasteful. Cowardly. Nobody should voluntarily give up on life. If it was your time to die, death would calmly claim you. Otherwise it was your duty to press on and live. P29

He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.

You have to know sadness . . . because sadness is duty . . .because if you know sadness, you understand sadness in others, and if you can understand sadness in others, you're obligated to help.

Newsrooms are now filled with progressive activists who bend the truth, as opposed to old-school professionals who feel a duty to both themselves and their audience.

Which of you are doing only what you were hired to do?

Why do men like you do the job you do? It can't be for the medals. And it's certainly not the money." Stone said nothing. -"Why then? God and country?" -"Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President." -"What then?" -"So I can look at myself in the mirror.

with the way the world is now, we all have to think about things beyond our lifetime. Beyond our children's lifetime, in fact. It's our right. It's our duty, my good friend told me.

He guessed that was what the military was always fighting for, the rights and freedoms of the next generation.

Fort Bragg, Texas.

now. But I still act like a cop sometimes.