Quotes About Duty

Those who don't have challenges, don't have responsibilities.

Responsibility finds a way. Irresponsibilty makes excuses!

Great Power doesn't come without great responsibilities.

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

A man does what he must, with no personal consequences in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressure And that is the basis of all human morality.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Who kept the faith, fought the fight and gave their life; the glory theirs, the duty ours!

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.

A man who seeks only the light, while shirking his responsibilities, will never find illumination. And one who keep his eyes fixed upon the sun ends up blind.

Thinking about you is my hobby, Missing you is my concern, Caring for you is my job, Loving you is my duty and being there for you is forever a pleasure.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

The generals responsible for the death of most soldiers insist upon their being well fed.

if, when Odette wished to go for a walk, in the morning, along the Avenue du Bois-de-Boulogne, his duty as a good husband had obliged him, though he had no desire to go out, to accompany her, carrying her cloak when she was too warm; and in the evening, after dinner, if she wished to stay at home, and not to dress, if he had been forced to stay beside her, to do what she asked;

whatever reason they give, simply don't want to be killed, it's nothing but funk." And with a more emphatic gesture than when he alluded to others, "And if I don't rejoin my regiment, it's for the same reason.

be making her tea; or, if my aunt were feeling 'upset,' she would ask instead for her 'tisane,' and it would be my duty to shake out of the chemist's little package on to a plate the amount of lime-blossom required for infusion in boiling water.

It appeared that the deference which, on my grandmother's authority, we owed to Mme. de Villeparisis imposed on her the reciprocal obligation to do nothing that would render her less worthy of our regard, and that she had failed in her duty in becoming aware of Swann's existence and in allowing members of her family to associate with him. "How should she know Swann? A lady who, you always made out, was related to Marshal Mac-Mahon!

No civil servant takes a window for granted.