If you boys… you men can do what has to be done when you’d rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene

Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain.

Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.

Duty doesn’t always fit comfortably.

My God! My God! Why hast thou forsaken me?We have found that man must depend on himself. He must clear the land; he must build the home; he must plow and plant; he must invent; he must work with hand and brain; he must overcome the difficulties and obstructions; he must conquer and enslave the...

A woman keeps to home and family, and tends to matters inside the home. A man keeps to war games and tends to matters outside.”A queen tends to both, I wanted to say, but did not. She would not understand.

Each shift is assigned a training topic and the training is then conducted while on-duty.

I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old.

I didn’t grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

…so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm – might even be a patriotic duty.

People are attracted more towards bad things because being good has been turned into a boring duty. No adrenaline & dopamine rush, no rewards!

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

As a people, we have wrestled with Vietnam’s legacy for many years, as was and is our duty. Now we want to remind ourselves of what we have done right. Our involvement in World War II was us doing right.

Service is your only duty.

This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one’s duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the...

There’s no substitute for these (Reserve and active-duty troops) training alongside each other,

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Uniqueness isn’t a virtue. It’s a responsibility.

Working hard is a fool’s anthem, getting others to work for you is the motto for every successful man.

Do something everyday that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

I tried to establish order over the chaos of my imagination, but this essence, the same that presented itself to me still hazily when I was a child, has always struck me as the very heart of truth. It is our duty to set ourselves an end beyond our individual concerns, beyond our convenient, agreeable...

Most of us don’t mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn’t interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

I don’t see why you two can’t get along.””It is a personality issue,” Rathenridge muttered.Dentin looked at him. No emotion, no reaction, simply bland observation. “Yours?

I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness...

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

You can always tell duty. It’s what you don’t want to do–it’s what you fight against inside you. Duty’s when you realize how it’ll hurt other people and you choose between that and what would be easiest for you.

The only thing that feels right is as wrong as it can get

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

…love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow…

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.

It is the duty of the government to provide security for the judicial system while at the same time respecting its independence,

Dharma – the foundation of all human goals be,Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties;- 25 –

A giant! A giant in the forest! And we’re supposed to give him English lessons! Always assuming, of course, we can get past the herd of murderous centaurs on the way in and out! I — don’t — believe — him!

She very much feared that if she stayed with Maximus, this awful taint – this terribly wrong act – would, day by day, year by year, wear at her until she was no more than a ghost of her former self. She saw need when she looked into his eyes, but was there any love...

An enlightened man had but one duty – to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

But it is a writer’s duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back.

Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.

Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn’t melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to.