Quotes About Duty

Siempre hay alguien que elige, y otro que tiene que aceptar la elección.

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Blessed the geniuses who know that egomania is not a duty.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.

Noi non possiamo sperare di costruire un mondo migliore senza migliorare gli individui. Con questo scopo, ciascuno di noi deve lavorare al proprio perfezionamento, pur accettando la propria parte nella vita generale dell'Umanità; poiché il nostro dovere particolare è di aiutare quelli ai quali possiamo essere più utili

It comes down to this. Some one must wash the dishes. Now, would you expect man, man made in the image of God, to roll up his sleeves and wash the dishes? Why, it would be blasphemy. I know that I am but a rib and so I wash the dishes.

I think—" Anakin kicked his heel against the polished marble floor. "I think I hate it when I can't stop my men from getting hurt. From dying. I think—

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

Those prepared to give their lives in freedom's cause, come over to me.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

Above all, our freedom endures because of the men and women in uniform who defend it.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.