Quotes About Obligation

Valar morghulis. - Valar dohaeris. (c) George R. Martin -- All men must die. - All men must serve.

We do not choose our destinies. Yet we must… we must do our duty, no? Great or small, we must do our duty.

How can I do my duty if I do not know where it lies?

Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.

Robb, listen to me. Once you have eaten of his bread and salt, you have the guest right, and the laws of hospitality protect you beneath his roof.

Family, Duty, Honor,

When the choice is debt or death, best borrow.

When you accept a lord's meat and mead, all you do reflects on him. Always do more than he expects of you, never less. Never flinch at any task or hardship. And above all, never shame the lord you serve.

Craster is his own man. He has sworn us no vows. Nor is he subject to our laws. Your heart is noble, Jon, but learn a lesson here. We cannot set the world to rights. That is not our purpose. The Night's Watch has other wars to fight.

You will have little joy of your command, but I think you have the strength in you to do the things that must be done.

point had been reached, the host, his business done, took his guests back to town in the automobile upon which he had not as yet paid a cent, dropping them

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country

It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

To be a good soldier a man must have discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and in his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to his comrades and to his superiors, and self-confidence bom of demonstrated ability.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

I made it very plain: We will not have an all-volunteer army. [Crowd boos] Let me restate that. We will not have a draft.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Render therefore to all their dues.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.