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Quotes About Duty

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.
~ Marlon Brando
For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.
~ R. Lee Ermey
The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation And I did it with honor.
~ Hosni Mubarak
To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.
~ Tia Walker
The only force that can sustain true and consistent courage is some form of spiritual belief that values like honor, duty, loyalty and integrity above the status, power, money and even security.
~ Michael Josephson
Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.
~ Bob Ehrlich
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
~ Daniel Webster
Honor is a harder master than the law.
~ Mark Twain
Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
~ Pierre Corneille
Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.
~ Tryon Edwards
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
~ Douglas MacArthur
I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
On my honor, I swear to you, that from my first day in office to the last breath I draw, I will do everything in my power to make you proud of your government.
~ John McCain
Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.
~ William Wordsworth
"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
~ David Duchovny
The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Servants honor their master by their service.
~ Franz Grillparzer
When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.
~ Jose Bernardo
If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance.
~ William Shakespeare
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
~ William Faulkner
To represent your country is an honor and a great experience.
~ Michelle Kwan
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
~ George Washington