Quotes About Duty

The Christian is never to be motivated by a sense of his own honor, but rather by the honor of Christ. If pride was Satan's original sin, humility and patient faith are the Christian's primary duty.

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

A servant does what his massa says and goes where his massa sends him and doesn't quit until the job is done.

Everything we do, talí, we do with honor.

Anything we do, talí, we do with honor.

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it. Albert Einstein

Many years after the war, an American journalist asked Jeannie Rousseau, one of Marie-Madeleine's operatives, why she had risked her life to join Alliance. "I don't understand the question," replied Rousseau, who was responsible for one of the greatest Allied intelligence coups of the war. "It was a moral obligation to do what you are capable of doing. It was a must. How could you not do it?

Pack herself told a journalist after the war: "I did my duty as I saw it. It involved me in situations from which respectable women draw back. But wars are not won by respectable methods.

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

If you have no philosophical ground for your work, you have no place to stand from which to make decisions. Ethical ones, moral ones. You won't know the boundaries of your duty, and what you owe your gods—assuming you have any—the world, and your fellow men and women.

He had innocents to protect. That was part of his duty.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

He collects my ashes himself, though this is a women's duty. He puts them in a golden urn, the finest in our camp, and turns to the watching Greeks. 'When I am dead, I charged you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.

This, out of all of it, was perhaps the strangest: that he was their commander now. He would be expected to know them all, their names and armor and stories. He no longer belongs to me alone.

She trudged along, dutiful as a naughty child.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country. My citizens of the world. Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage. . . Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country