Quotes About Duty

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

If you want someone to grab a beer with, I may not be that guy. But if you want someone to drive you home, I will get the job done and I will get you home.

We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.

Do the right thing because it is right.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

The entire perks that I need are to let me do my job with full honesty to my conscience.

He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups.

Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.

There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

There is honor in being a dog.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.