110 quotes found
“Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.”
“I did not come into this Army to serve one man, to serve a friend.”
“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.”
“My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your d...”
“He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases”
“We refuse to put guards on duty, we would rather pray for Gods protection.”
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
“The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.”
“Eventually you will find something to put that energy into and you will be unstoppable. Even now with something you take no joy in, you do your task dutifuly, because it's all you can do. There's s...”
“There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.”
“We all have the duty to do good.”
“The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.”
“Duty cannot exist without faith.”
“The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.”
“The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.”
“Our heroes are over there where the white crosses are. We're survivors over here. None of us are heroes. I don't think you'll talk to a man who say we are. You figure a hero is someone who does abo...”
“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)”
