Quotes About Duty

Any one who molests Father Goriot will have henceforward to reckon with me," said Eugene, looking at the old man's neighbor; "he is worth all the rest of us put together.

There comes an age when the only mistress a man can serve is his country.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

When, on his return to Lud-in-the-Mist, he had been twitted for having wasted so much time on such an unworthy object, he had answered that a pig was thrall to the same master as a Mayor, and that it needed as much skill to cure the one as the other; adding that a good fiddler enjoys fiddling for its own sake, and that it is all the same to him whether he plays at a yokel's wedding or a merchant's funeral.

A relationship that has become artificial, and connected, on one side, with a sense of duty rather than with spontaneous affection, is always an uncomfortable one.

It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.

To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is; and despise affectation.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

An artist owed a duty to nothing except his own irresponsibility. It was OK for an artist to frolic in the water, no matter how bloody the waves or how high the tide rose. An ethicist had an obligation to drown.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.

Immanuel Kant" "Noch wal

No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned and inscribed for the benefit of every human being subject to our Constitution—of whatever race, creed or persuasion.

Deep in the marrow of our religion is the conviction that loss and sacrifice are noble. To surrender something is the highest proof of Christian duty.

Foarte curând, grijile de zi cu zi trecuser? din nou în prim plan. Idealurile È™i marile cauze nu mai însufleÈ›eau pe nimeni, sugerau rapoartele. SoldaÈ›ii "luptau pentru c? li se ordona È™i pentru a-È™i salva viaÈ›a".

They were expendable.

Semper Vigilo – that's our motto,' Rebus said

Saying of the Prophet The Judge A man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

Saying of the Prophet Obligation to Learn The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.

No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.

Service I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia el-Adawia.

But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.