Quotes About Duty

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise.

General Kuribayashi

There is a duty to improve the lot of others. Charity isn't personal, it's public. It's owed not just to God and salvation but to the nation: the idea that America itself deserves its citizens' charity, not because it is poor but because it could always be richer.

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earth's foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay.

We spent today sending men to hell. What's more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place?

Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord.

And unlike the rest of you, he hasn't yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won't do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.

Xaphen swore an oath never to fail his primarch. Argal Tal did not. He spoke in a voice soft enough to break hearts, "We are heretics, father.

Sometime duty calls at ten p.m. on a Wednesday night.

Over the pope as the expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there still stands one's own conscience, which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority.

Lieutenant Commander Galloway [behind a chain link fence at a ball field]: Do you know what a code red is? Lieutenant Kaffee, standing on the ball field, looks at her in silence with a blank expression on his face. Galloway: What a pity.

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

You can't handle the truth!" - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men.

You can't handle the truth . You can't handle the sad but historic reality. - Lt.Col Nathan Jessep

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor. - Lt.j.g Daniel A Kaffee

LTJG Kaffee: I want the truth! Col Jessup: You can't handle the truth!

In this set of prescriptions, the beard enjoys a privileged position. It is indeed the symbol of virility, just as the veil is the symbol of feminity. But whereas the veil, as is normal, must conceal femi­ninity, the beard is intended on the contrary to draw attention to itself and in some sense exhibit virility. The beard is a form of masculinity. There is therefore a canonical duty to wear a beard.

This is the burden we all have to bear, to live a useful life

Lie heavy on him earth, for he laid many a heavy load on thee (suggested epitaph)

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

My own inclinations must not be followed--to duty I sacrifice them.

All domestic pleasures and enjoyments are absorbed in the great and important duty you owe your country.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.