Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders.
Sebastian JungerTags: patriotism war duty sacrifice commitment
A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.
Lee ChildTags: service duty honor jack-reacher
We are meant to be.” He pressed his lips to mine again; against myself, against my worry, I once again succumbed to the power of his kiss. “I know that now. Our love is stronger than magic, stronger than the laws of all Feyland. It will survive this...whatever the future brings.” - Prince Kian, Silver Frost.
Kailin GowTags: love war romance duty fairy frost-series
Full moon is falling through the sky.
Cranes fly through clouds.
Wolves howl. I cannot find rest
Because I am powerless
To amend a broken world.
Sima Zian added, "I love the man who wrote that, I told you before, but there is so much burden in Chan Du. Duty, assuming all tasks, can betray arrogance. The idea we can know what must be done, and do it properly. We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is.
Tags: future arrogance foresight duty powerlessness
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.
Hermann HesseTags: duty enlightenment hermann-hesse demian
So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man,
When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,'
The youth whispers, 'I can.
Tags: belief god action duty initiative believing
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright
Blaise PascalTags: truth god duty providence
She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.
Elizabeth GaskellTags: duty
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester NimitzTags: war courage hope moral-courage christian duty
To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
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