Quotes About Duty

Flynn was "a colonel in a general's uniform," according to one senior intelligence figure.)

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

an intellectual didn't have to be responsible. That wasn't his job. In

The putting to death of morality had, on the whole, become a sort of ritual sacrifice necessary for the reassertion of the dominant values of the group—centered for some decades now on competition, innovation, and energy, more than on fidelity and duty.

Realize that maturity does not come with age but with acceptance of responsibility.

A country is only as strong as its military, and only as moral as the men who serve in its ranks.

Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.

Every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that makes him master of the world. When he wants a thing, he never tells himself that he wants it. He waits patiently until there comes into his mind, no one knows how, a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who have got the thing he wants. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, 1897

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

Las dos cosas que más odia el ser humano son: esforzarse y responsabilizarse por sus actos.

Não ser pode ser fraco com os fracos, não se pode prescindir de exercer tudo o que nos cabe de autoridade, seja natural ou apenas "ex officio".

Vocês homens têm esse lado de conflito interior, que veneram. Por dever de consciência, suportam inimigos e abandonam amigos.

My dad never did anything, though," Jenna continued. "He never . . . I don't know, he never went off to join the star force so he could help guard ships, or anything. I don't know if it was even because he was scared to. I think it's just that he wouldn't have got paid enough.

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that's my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

He had hardly ever allowed himself the things that really gave him pleasure. Tradition and obligation had tyrannized over all his hours.

The penalties incurred for the mistakes you made had to be paid out in full to the members of your family

Yoseb would not allow Sunja to accept any money from Hansu for Noa's schooling.

Protesting was for young men without families.

Rune: "They're getting away!" Thatz: "Our Dragon Knights honor is at stake! Let's get 'em!" Rath: "'Dragon Knights honor'? Really?

Duty is inevitable, but we need not saddle ourselves with extra responsibilities. Keep life simple. Give up as much as possible.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.