Quotes About Duty

It was a' for our rightfu' KingWe left fair Scotland's strand.

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, let that aye be your border.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Remember, as a software developer, you are a stakeholder. You have a stake in the software that you need to safeguard. That's part of your role, and part of your duty. And it's a big part of why you were hired.

The duty of Social Democracy was to influence the will of nations to arrange their affairs in the manner best corresponding to the interests of the proletariat.

But none of these men before you acted in minor parts. Each of them was entrusted with broad discretion and exercised great power. Their responsibility is correspondingly great and may not be shifted to that fictional being, "the State", which cannot be produced for trial, cannot testify, and cannot be sentenced.

No one who follows their conscience ever does wrong. - Cardinal Vincent Benitez

Soldier, shut up and Soldier

How would you feel, Elayne said softly, if you saw your queen trying to kill a Trolloc with a sword as you ran away? I'd feel like I needed to bloody move to another country, Birgitte snapped, loosing another arrow, one where the monarchs don't have pudding for brains.

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

p.s. In case you don't know what Do what needs to be done means, it means that I want you to go bloody slaughter as many of the Sharan channelers as you can. I'll bet you a full Tar Valon mark-it's only been shaved on the sides a little-that you can't kill twenty.-MC missive from Mat to Galad

Death is light as a feather; duty, heavy as a mountain

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. So many duties. Egwene.

Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. So many duties.

When an officer runs by with a look like that on his face, you don't ask if he needs help. You just follow!

He hadn't asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right.

When we Shienarans ride, every man knows who is next in line if the man in command falls. A chain unbroken right down to the last man left, even if he's nothing but a horseholder. That way, you see, even if he is the last man, he is not just a straggler running and trying to stay alive. He has the command,and duty calls him to do what must be done. If I go to the last embrace of the mother, the duty is yours. You will find the Horn, and you will take it where it belongs. You will.

If you boys... you men can do what has to be done when you'd rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene

An honorable man protects whoever needs protecting, but children above all, and women above men.

The mighty tell the lesser to dig in the mud and keep their own hands clean.

Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.

Who would rule a nation when he could have easier work, such as carrying water uphill in a sieve?