Quotes About Duty

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

some working explanation of the universe is necessary – however absurd – to the happiness of every individual who seeks to do his duty in the world and face the problems of life.

That vigilant, enterprising, and patriotic soldier, General T. J. Jackson, whose steadiness under fire at the first battle of Manassas had procured for him the sobriquet of "Stonewall," was then on duty as district commander of the Shenandoah Valley.

Had these Africans been a cruelly oppressed people, restlessly struggling to be freed from their bonds, would their masters have dared to leave them, as was done, and would they have remained as they did, continuing their usual duties, or could the proclamation of emancipation have been put on the plea of a military necessity, if the fact had been that the negroes were forced to serve, and desired only an opportunity to rise against their masters?

We should entrust to the people the most fundamental decision of a democracy; namely, who should lead their country." This Republican argument, which was made so often, was political cowardice dressed up as democratic deference. Impeachment existed precisely because the Framers believed that sometimes Congress should not wait for the voters to make a change. To pass the buck to their constituents, as so many Republican senators did, was to shirk their constitutionally mandated duty.

To pass the buck to their constituents, as so many Republican senators did, was to shirk their constitutionally mandated duty. This

Yovanovitch's testimony was an act of tremendous honor and importance.

Everyone wanted to get a better look at the princess. Her parents were used to interacting with their kingdom, but at eighteen, she had only recently been invited to join them on official outings. Truth be told, she still preferred to live life in the shadows, but duty called.

Truth be told, she still preferred to lve life in the shadows, but duty called.

Geld zu haben ist, wie alles andere auch, ein Werkzeug. Sehen Sie es als solches. Und betrachten Sie dabei nicht nur sich selbst. Überlegen Sie vielmehr, wie Sie zum Teil jener Dynamik werden können, in der Geld in allen Bereichen einer Verbesserung dient. Dann ist es nicht nur ein Segen Geld zu haben, dann bringt es auch eine Verantwortung mit sich.

I will write as often as I can, but truth be told, I don't have many moments to myself. The queen is in a very bad way and needs everyone who can be at her side. But whenever I undo my buttons to ready myself for bed, I think of you. I imagine your fingers unfastening my gown, opening me like a Christmas parcel for your pleasure. I tingle even now as I think of it, and so I will close before I quite combust and burn the paper.

Mac, I want you to go back to the house and make sure the ladies don't get the idea to go searching as well. I told Eleanor not to, but you know the Mackenzie females." Mac scowled."Hell, Hart, can't you find something easier for me to do? Go up against an army of assassins in my underwear, maybe?

Fac quod faciendum est,' " Jo read aloud. "Do what must be done.

Fa quod faciendum est.

I love cops," he said. "It's like my life, but with all the boring parts taken out.

Als je iemand dood wilt hebben, vind ik dat je op zijn minst het fatsoen moet hebben het zelf te doen, en het goed te doen.

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to "renounce his personality," and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.