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Quotes tagged “Duty”

“Helping people, that's what I do.”
— Aang, Avatar, Book Three: The Puppetmaster
Tagged: help, People, Duty
“I feel it's my duty, as a public servant, to take action.”
— Julia Montague, Bodyguard, Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Duty, Public Servant, Action
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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 a republic again.

Commodus: Maximus?

Marcus Aurelius: Yes. [Marcus moves his hand to touch Commodus’ face and Commodus turns away] My decision disappoints you?

Commodus: You wrote to me once, listing the four chief virtues: Wisdom, justice, fortitude and temperance. As I read the list, I knew I had none of them. But I have other virtues, father. Ambition. That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel. Resourcefulness, courage, perhaps not on the battlefield, but…there are many forms of courage. Devotion, to my family, to you. But none of my virtues were on your list. Even then it was as if you didn’t want me for your son.

Marcus Aurelius: Oh, Commodus. You go too far.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Gladiator
Tagged: Rome, Duty, emperor, Wisdom, Devotion
“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.”
— Maximus Decimus Meridius, Gladiator
Tagged: Duty, Free Will
“You have failed this city!”
— Oliver Queen, Arrow, Season 1: Betrayal
Tagged: Failure, Fail, City, Heroes, Superheroes, Duty, pressure
“Captain Sandra Maldonado: 'Kennex should return to duty never.'

Detective John Kennex: Never? Well that's a long time.”
— John Kennex, Almost Human, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: order, Command, never, Duty, Detectives, Snarky, Sassy, punishment
“When you a king, you gotta look out for your people.”
— Ezekiel Figuero, The Get Down, Season 1: Unfold Your Own Myth
Tagged: king, People, Duty, Look Out For, Wisdom, Metaphor
“ She is our sister. And as sisters, we have an intrinsic duty; to uphold peace.”
— Blossom, The Powerpuff Girls, Season 2: Los Dos Mojos
Tagged: Sisters, Duty, Peace
“It is now my duty to completely drain you.”
— Nirvana, Drain You
Tagged: Duty, completely, drain, take up
“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.”
— Alex Parrish, Quantico, Season 3: Spy Games
Tagged: Questions, introspective, Who Am I, Answer, Choice, Duty
“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.”
— Prince Francis, Reign, Season 1: Snakes in the Garden
Tagged: king, Love, country, Relationships, royalty, Duty, loyal
“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.”
— Queen Mary, The Crown, Season 1: Act of God
Tagged: God, Grace, dignify, Earth, Ideal, Nobility, Duty, Monarchy
“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.”
— Æon Flux, Ӕon Flux, Season 3: The Demiurge
Tagged: shoot, Gun, Duty, Principle, Self-knowledge, self-assured
“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 bear what he will not.”
— John McCain, Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
Tagged: Military, Duty, Responsibility
“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
Tagged: Faith, Duty, Right Makes Might
“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 national liberty.”
— Franklin Pierce, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 7
Tagged: Judgment, fulfilled, Suffering, Duty, humanity, Words, acts, Action, sympathy, Encouragement, Language, Communication, Liberty, Freedom
“It is the duty of every officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief”
— Nathan Hale, Haunted Heritage: A Definitive Collection of North American Ghost Stories
Tagged: Duty, officer, Military, Soldier, Service, country, commander, chief
“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, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
Tagged: Hardship, Sacrifice, Courage, Duty, Brain, heart
“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, Rights of Man
Tagged: Right, Duty, possessive
“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, Appeal from the New Whigs to the Old
Tagged: Right, Will, Duty, Trust, Engagement, Obligation

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