Quotes tagged ‘Duty’

“Helping people, that's what I do.”

— Aaron Ehasz, Aang, Zach Tyler, imdb.com

“I feel it's my duty, as a public servant, to take action.”

— Jed Mercurio, Julia Montague, Keeley Hawes, imdb.com

“Marcus Aurelius: Are you ready to do your duty for Rome? Commodus: Yes, father. Marcus Aurelius: You will not be emperor. Commodus: Which wiser, older man is to take my place? Marcus Aurelius: My powers will pass to Maximus, to hold in trust until the Senate is ready to rule once more. Rome is to be…”

— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, Marcus Aurelius, Richard Harris, imdb.com

“Maximus: Do you find it hard to do your duty? Cicero: Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.”

— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, Maximus Decimus Meridius, Russell Crowe, imdb.com

“You have failed this city!”

— Lana Cho, Beth Schwartz, Oliver Queen, Stephen Amell, imdb.com

“Captain Sandra Maldonado: 'Kennex should return to duty never.' Detective John Kennex: Never? Well that's a long time.”

— J.H. Wyman, John Kennex, Karl Urban, imdb.com

“When you a king, you gotta look out for your people.”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com

“She is our sister. And as sisters, we have an intrinsic duty; to uphold peace.”

— Craig McCracken, John McIntyre, Blossom, Cathy Cavadini, imdb.com

“It is now my duty to completely drain you.”

— Nirvana, open.spotify.com

“The hardest question to answer in your life is, 'Who am I?' And some people get to answer it for themselves, and the others have it answered for them. Choice versus duty.”

— Adam Armus, Alex Parrish, Priyanka Chopra, imdb.com

“I hope to be a good king some day, which is why I'll never put anything, any love, ahead of the love for my country.”

— Laurie McCarthy, Prince Francis, Toby Regbo, imdb.com

“Monarchy is God’s sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth. To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards, an example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives. Monarchy is a calling from God.”

— Peter Morgan, Queen Mary, Eileen Atkins, imdb.com

“The only reason I don't shoot you has nothing to do with duty or principle. It's simply a matter of knowing who I am.”

— Michael Ferris, Peter Chung, John D. Brancato, Steve De Jarnatt, Æon Flux, Denise Poirier, imdb.com

“An officer must not lie, steal, or cheat—ever. He keeps his word, whatever the cost. He must not shirk his duties no matter how difficult or dangerous they are. His life is ransomed to his duty. An officer must trust his fellow officers, and expect their trust in return. He must not expect others to…”

— John McCain, amazon.com

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com

“In this our country has, in my judgment, thus far fulfilled its highest duty to suffering humanity. It has spoken and will continue to speak, not only by words, but by its acts, the language of sympathy, encouragement, and hope to those who earnestly listen to tones which pronounce for the largest n…”

— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com

“It is the duty of every officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief”

— Nathan Hale, amazon.com

“A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness…”

— Theodore Roosevelt, cdnc.ucr.edu

“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”

— Thomas Paine, amazon.com

“Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.”

— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org