Quotes About Duty

Five years ago, when I was elected, I had the feeling that the president doesn't have much to do. I've realized, though, that this is not a rubber-stamp position.

If you are elected to do a job, you are supposed to do it to the best of your ability.

It is the responsibility, I think, of anybody in elected office to look for opportunities to help serve their people.

Our armed forces don't just do something. They are something. They are the embodiment of hope and of our values.

It's not so much the attorney general's job to decide what laws to enforce. We should do our jobs and enforce laws effectively as we're able.

Our job in Congress is to serve the American people, and not enrich ourselves with special taxpayer-funded benefits.

The people who are entrusted with interpreting the law and upholding justice are tasked with an enormous duty.

Every man plays many roles. So far, I have played father the best.

A position is what you hold; a job is what you do.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of another. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness

There is… only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

el deber del hombre es ser feliz y si cumple con este deber en un grado ético elevado habrá llevado a cabo su cometido. Esto es del todo suficiente para una vida. ¿Es, además, «valioso»? Pero ¿qué es valioso salvo el conocimiento de la vida para nosotros mismos y el vivir para otro(s)?

I ask, Lord, for daily bread, but not for wealth, lest I forget the poor. I ask for strength, but not for power, lest I despise the meek. I ask for wisdom, but not for learning, lest I condemn the simple. I ask for a clean name, but not for fame, lest I condemn the lowly. I ask for peace of mind, but not for idle hours, lest I fail to hearken to the call of duty.

The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

I've known for ages that men and women are animals by nature, I've also known that we have a sacred duty to make something different of ourselves, and I still believe that we have the strength and the chance to be more than we are. Through ourselves? Despite ourselves? Doesn't matter, I still believe…

This is the army, Mr. Jones,No private baths or telephones.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us

Faith is the belief that this life is not our only chance. Wavering of faith means beginning to believe in this life and wanting to live it, denying all duties and dashing off uncontrolled.

he makes a vast contrast between nature, which is this elemental, capricious, perhaps causal, perhaps chance-directed entity, and man, who has morality, who distinguishes between desire and will, duty and interest, the right and the wrong, and acts accordingly, if need be against nature.

If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.