On Duty Quotes
We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.pg vi
There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love.
The sooner we wake up and realise that we have a moral duty to guide and protect this planet, the sooner things will improve for every form of life on this planet.
Parenting role-play change every ten years from affection to duty to responsibility, and then the cycle must reverse with next generation playing the same in the reverse sequence.
A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.
People are attracted more towards bad things because being good has been turned into a boring duty. No adrenaline & dopamine rush, no rewards!
Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?"I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.
A mother is an irreplaceable gift that God has given every mankind. Your (a child's) duty is to honour, adore, respect and serve her. Your blessings are tied in how honour she felt.
Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.
He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.
Without my voice and spirit I am dust. This is not what I want, but what I must.
Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are.
Karate is not A religion, cult or dogma. It is incumbent on every generation of martial artists, to find the weaknesses of the previous generations, not to revere it . . .
Service is born out of love not duty.
I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life.
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn't melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to.
Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool
When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility.
The needs are too great, and there are too few of us. We have a duty, a responsibility to help others. It’s not all about fun. It’s not always easy.
I do have nightmares. So what? I wouldn’t trade places with any of the f**kers I killed. Am I afraid of Hell? No. I’ve been. It’s worse than advertised but not as bad as imagined. ~ Brandon Hull
How does a person perform nobly in Hell?" I asked her."You plant flowers, " she hissed. "You feed the birds, while they're burning...
But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.
You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.
A person who does not get attached to anything, and never forgets to do his duty, will achieve everything.
Faith is the flower that unfolds its own beauty without knowing how it will fulfill life's duty.
I have been blessed with luck, talent and opportunities, now it is my duty to add the hardworking element.
It's his duty. A good healer can't pick and choose. If he can help, then he must.
Maybe in death you’ll understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against all that you swear to protect.
Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.
Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.
No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.
From the neglect of a real duty, she became the slave of a false one.
Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.
When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready.
…love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow…
The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.
He who fails to know his real and true competitor shall never be able to give a good account of his stewardship in life! Your true and real competitor is your real and true solemn duty to your Maker!
A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas." -Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional)
Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?