Quotes About Duty

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.

On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in regard to women's social morals. As a rule, these have been focused on the family and on charity - among other reasons, because woman's sense of duty seldom finds means of expression in other directions.

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

Jackie smiled graciously and did her part, the noblesse oblige she had talked about. I almost wished she'd been rude to them, since I had to hold the elevator door open for a long minute while she signed one of the briefcases with a Magic Marker. There were distant chimes, indicating that somebody else wanted the elevator, and the door kept thumping me as it tried to close and answer the call.

Anyone this completely clueless did not deserve another day of using up oxygen that I might want someday. It was a clear civic duty to yank this idiot out of existence ASAP, before he had a chance to contaminate the gene pool.

But I had been commanded to tow him through the stormy waters of my life in forensics, and so tow I must. And

I did not come into this Army to serve one man, to serve a friend.

Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight Ã¢â'¬Â¦ touch the mountains and they shall smoke Ã¢â'¬Â¦ He had memorized that verse years before, Psalm 144, knew somehow, strangely, that it was for him, that God had put those words there as a sign, words to guide him to his duty.

We got a duty . . . we all got the same duty, all of us, Major." Armistead

Two things an officer must do, to lead men. This from old Ames, who never cared about love: You must care for your men's welfare. You must show physical courage. Well

I thought myself better adapted to command in the field; and Mississippi had given me the position which I preferred to any other—the highest rank in her army. It was, therefore, that I afterward said, in an address delivered in the Capitol, before the Legislature of the State, with reference to my election to the Presidency of the Confederacy, that the duty to which I was thus called was temporary, and that I expected soon to be with the Army of Mississippi again.

Like most soldiers, he'd wielded a Black and Decker steam iron far more frequently than an M16.

didn't install them promptly then there's nothing we can do.

you should take your consciences with you, and leave your politics in the chamber.' Lord

They also serve who only stand and wait.

That was the ideal: to remain dutiful to a preservationist ethos while not depriving yourself of modern creature comforts.

I'm not a monster. But I do kill people, have been for more than two decades. Mostly, I'm doing the world a favor. ~Prologue~

to be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.

War still was the stern school where men learnt virtue, duty, forgetfulness of self, faithfulness unto death.

life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work. 

Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. The smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

Sometimes," she said, "what we want to do and what we must do are not the same." She put a hand on his shoulder. "Pasqo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

but the very idea scandalized her. "What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he is dead?