Quotes About Duty

I've always enjoyed a comfortable life without having to perform a single day of honest labor. Now I have responsibilities.

the minute he'd said 'yes' to this assignment, Royce had said 'no' to Lauren.

When a man and a woman come to an alliance with honour, the knowledge that their future has been written for the benefit of family and state, love and duty are one.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day, but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

Any community's arm of force--military, police, security--needs people in it who can do the necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

God's not here. Somebody's got to fill in.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

I did my job," the lawyer said. "The sworn oath of the mediocre," Father Bobby said.

Cuando un hombre tiene que abusar de la mentira para cumplir con su deber puede estar seguro de que anda equivocado de verdad o de deber.

Si mañana me fusilan, fusilarán a un general que ha hecho honor a su palabra y a sus juramentos militares. Pero si mañana le fusilan a usted, fusilarán a un general que ha faltado a su palabra y a su honor

About serving your country. You're a hero—people all over the nation, and right here in Shelter Bay, can sleep safe in their houses because the enemies are being kept at bay.

He felt his heart roll, exposing its underbelly. Nothing he could do about that. He was equipped to eliminate threats, protect and serve. Not to love. Never to love.

The law can be dirty, she said. As he well knew, but he wasn't going there. Instead, he let a teasing smile come into his voice. True. And I can be very dirty, but only when I'm off duty, and only if you ask real nice.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

I'm a wizard. That means I have power, and power and responsibility go hand in hand.

Harry, life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick of things, sometimes it's hard for us to tell. You didn't do what you did for your own benefit. You did it so that you could protect others. That doesn't make it right - but it doesn't make you a monster, either. You still have free will. You still get to choose what you will do and what you will be and what you will become.

I like complaining. It's every soldier's sacred right