Quotes About Duty

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.

Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]

Of my death, tell them i have done my duty

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

They are there to uphold the law. There are still good men in this country.

We exercise faith by responding to the task that lies before us.

But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was only reminding women of their duty. There is no need to make everything so personal, Margaret. You make everything into your own tragedy.

There is no one who loves peace more than a soldier

I have my own loyalties and obligations that I consider and honor. They are not his. They are not at the beck and call of any man.