Quotes About Duty

Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!

I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.

Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

I had to be the next family Alchemist. My sister... well, she's older, and usually it's the oldest kid who has to do the job. But, she's kind of... worthless. -Sydney to Rose

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became an infantryman. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

Fear born of that stern matron Responsibility.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.