Quotes About Duty

I could have easily carved out a niche, but I realised that Saira Banu the actress can be replaced, but nobody can substitute my duty towards my family.

My brother-in-law is an African-American cop who patrols a New Orleans suburban community. He speaks to me often of his perilous duty.

War comes and goes but a soldier stays eternal

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Obedience without faith is possible, but not faith without obedience.

Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.

Devotion to duty is a fire that warms us but worldly ambition is a fire that consumes us.

und weil sie schon vorher gewusst hatte dass Freiheit nicht das Anderskönnen bedeutet sondern das Andersmüssen...

We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine backbone of our actions-if they are to be moral-is responsibility. Responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success.

PÃ…â"¢irozenou nevýhodou demokracie je, že tÄ›m, kdo to s ní myslí poctivÄ›, nesmírnÄ› svazuje ruce, zatím co tÄ›m, kteÃ…â"¢í ji neberou vážnÄ›, umož?uje tém?? vÅ¡e.

Ei tarvittu kuria, ei isänmaata, ei kunniaa eikä velvollisuudentuntoa. Noita kaikkia mahtavampi käskijä ruoski heitä eteenpäin. Kuolema.

whether pain or joy he deal Dare all things for his subjects' weal; Yea, if the deed bring

girls their mothers' nature share. So be not thou. For pity's sake Accept the word the monarch spake. Thy husband's will, O Queen, obey, And be the people's hope and stay, O, do not, urged by folly, draw The king to tread on duty's law.

bade the Maithil dame adieu, His saving errand done. With Sleep

Still on his head, well trained in lore Of duty, Ráma's shoes he bore. Ráma's shoes are here

Lakshma? sped With brows whence all the light had fled. Near and more near the

Everything that lived on earth had one meaning only: to serve.

The fight for truth...is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.

Being a planetary citizen does not need space travel. It means being conscious that we are part of the universe and of the earth. The most fundamental law is to recognise that we share the planet with other beings, and that we have a duty to care for our common home.

We are progeny of not just the Earth, but of the cosmos. And as its progeny it is our duty use the best of our ability and continue that.

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one's eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.

There's always an assumption of selflessness in planting a tree. You're supposed to think, while digging the hole, how far into the future the tree will grow and what shallow, unconvincing weeds we humans are in comparison. Standing by the young sprout, you're supposed to wonder who will see this tree when it's full-grown, and you're bound in duty to consider the serenity of your own grave.

A civilian doing his work in the pursuit of national defense is just as much a soldier as a man in uniform, if not better; because patriotism is a moral quality which should be possessed by all.