Quotes About Duty

Che ce ne importa di chi è già un eroe, di chi la coscienza ce l'ha già? E' il processo per arrivarci che si deve rappresentare! Finché resterà un solo individuo al di qua della coscienza, il nostro dovere sarà di occuparci di lui e solo di lui!

Surely the spiritual leader must be sincere in promise, faithful in discharge of duty, upright in finances, loyal in service, and honest in speech.

Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

General Guerdon.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Nobody but the dead know whether all these things people talk about are worth dying for or not. And the dead can't talk. So the words about noble deaths and sacred blood and honor and such are all put into dead lips by grave robbers and fakes who have no right to speak for the dead.

I realised Larkin was crying. It shook me to see it. And, though I know what you're thinking, it didn't diminish him in any way. I'd known from the first moment I saw him he was an emotionally vulnerable man. He didn't falter in his duty for a moment. He kept up the pace, covered all the angles he was asked to. He didn't even seem to be aware that he was crying. But he wept.

We march for Macragge!' The seargent declares 'No, not today,' Ventanus replied. 'Today, we march for Calth.'

Climb a mountain of bodies under heavy fire to a dead end. Why would we do that, sir? Because the Emperor tells you to.

Your timing could have been better,' he snapped. 'That thing nearly turned me into paste!' 'An unforgivable breach of duty, my lord,' Hauclir muttered darkly. 'Part of the wall fell on me and I selfishly tried to free myself instead of immediately seeing to your safety.

All right. Then will you let me walk the daeda waeg with you? Will you let me help you make the blood toll?' Eszrah nodded. 'Good, then.' Side by side, they clambered down through the rocks onto the desert floor. 'How many of them do we have to kill?' Mkoll asked. 'To make the blood toll, I mean?' Eszrah grinned. 'All of them, soule,' he said.

As a warrior, I am a man of conscience, and that conscience is directed by my faith in the Emperor.

I am an Imperial commissar. I will enflame the weak, support the wavering, guide the lost. I will be all things to all men who need me. But I will also punish without hesitation the incompetent, the cowardly, and the treasonous. --Ibram Gaunt

In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good versus evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing. In going

To see what must be done and not to do it, is a crime.

I used to be the errand boy for the Guardians of the Universe. It was a thankless job.

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

We can't afford to be Pollyannas or blind ourselves to real dangers, but we also should try not to succumb to despair. If we believe our vision for what our country is is worth fighting for, then we should fight for it. This is our right and duty as citizens.

responsibility is the accounting of one's actual response relative to one's ability for response (response/ability).

And where are you going, Admiral? . . . Don't you ever sleep?" She sensed him kneeling down beside her, felt his breath on her cheek as he lovingly absorbed every detail of her face and smoothed the wispy hair that had come loose from the braid. "Sleep? Not when my lovely Queen is under my protection. I am an officer, Majesty, and I have my sworn duty." An officer. Guarding the lives of those he loved. "I love you, Maeve," he said softly, and kissed her.