Lea Salonga Quotes

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Diety.

I couldn't go off and leave Stephen. Coals of fire would have been heaped on my head if I had.

But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working

Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Perhaps it's a curse, but when you are a Lutheran, you have a sense of responsibility.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

I don't want to let any of my family down.

I still feel a heavy responsibility for the people of Missouri because of the respect they have for me but also the things they've done for me.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.

I'm going with the understanding that I've done my duty.

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.

Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything