Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

I had to do something for the country.

We're all given something to do. And when we don't follow what we're supposed to do, we always know when we're off track.

Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role.

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.

You have to step up when your number is called.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.