Duty Quotes

For only those who have slipped and fallen know the vicissitudes of the way.

It's that old Chinese custom where if somebody saves your life, they're responsible for you forever. It's as if now you're their child.

Choke

Victor Mancini

Life

— I hear you owe that boy a significant debt.
— Only my life. Not all that significant, I'm afraid.

There are crises in all men's lives when they waver between the strict fulfilment of justice and duty and the great possibilities for personal happiness which another line of conduct seems to assure.

Theodore Dreiser

Jenny Gerhardt

on behalf of the author

Life Quotes

Happiness

Justice, Equity

— Tell me something, Varys. Who do you truly serve?
— The realm, my lord. Someone must.

Love is the death of duty.

— I hate you.
— The bloke who saved your life?
— The years I possess, stolen from my own father.
— I only helped Blackbeard do what any father should have done.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

... I've given all I can
It's not enough
I've given all I can
But we're still on the payroll...

This world would be in darkness without a sense of duty.

Samurai Champloo

Oh, we aII do our duty when there's no cost to it.

But when love and duty are one, then grace is within you.

The Painted Veil (2006)

Love

Being indebted to someone is nothing to be ashamed of. Not repaying that debt is.

Le Fruit de la Grisaia / Grisaia no Kajitsu

— A man pays his debts. A man owes three.
— Three what?
— The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl. And only death may pay for life. You saved me and the two I was with. You stole three deaths from the Red God. We have to give them back. Speak three names and the man will do the rest.

Great or small, we must do our duty.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

— There was one spot open in the study. I gave it to the rich guy because with the money he's donating, I can reopen the prenatal unit.
— What really bothers me is that you can look in there at John Morrison, a guy you essentially gave a death sentence to... and just not care.
— It's not my job to care, Perry.