Quotes About Duty

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

Agents and agencies can only be obliged to act in ways for which they have an adequate set of capabilities.

His life was a hymn in praise of honor, uprightness, and patriotism.

Scrivendo, invece, servo a qualcosa. Vi sono tanti modi per fare la politica vista come nobile impegno, dovere. Io la faccio scrivendo.

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La vita non è fatta solo di doveri, di nobili sogni. È fatta anche di piaceri. E il solo compenso per l'assenza di certi piaceri è illuderci d'avere una missione.

Lottate, ragionate col vostro cervello, ricordate che ciascuno è qualcuno, un individuo prezioso, responsabile, artefice di se stesso, difendetelo il vostro io, nocciolo di ogni libertà, la libertà è un dovere, prima che un diritto è un dovere.

Every right that we enjoy has a corresponding duty to not interfere with the enjoyment of the same right by others.

Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

For me, then, nobility is synonymous with a life of effort, ever set on excelling oneself, in passing beyond what one is to what one sets up as a duty and an obligation. In this way the noble life stands opposed to the common or inert life, which reclines statically upon itself, condemned to perpetual immobility, unless an external force compels it to come out of itself. Hence we apply the term mass to this kind of man- not so much because of his multitude as because of his inertia.

Stranger, tell the Spartans that we behaved as they would wish us to, and are buried here.

Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty... If I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying out a duty.

Hostility toward America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded for it by God . . . . I am confident that Muslims will be able to end the legend of the so-called superpower that is America.

To kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who can, in any country where this is possible, until the Aqsa mosque [in Jerusalem] and the Haram mosque [in Mecca] are freed from their grip, and until their armies, shattered and broken-winged, depart from all the lands of Islam, incapable of threatening any Muslim.

Now, I will make better use of my body and be useful by increasing food production just a little, then I will bid farewell to this world. It would be good to lighten the burden on this country. That is my path to best serve my country as a useless invalid. I want to die soon.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

COVID-19 is a matter of life and death, in the true meaning of the term for all nations, and countering it is the global duty of all.

Greater freedom frequently comes with greater responsibility.

Never turn your back against what you swore to protect with your life.

Voting is a fundamental right and an important duty in our society.

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Ist die Literatur vielleicht ein Bär, der seine Pfote leckt, ein bleierner Schlaf nach getaner Pflicht, auf dem Diwan des Arbeitszimmers?

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.