Martti Ahtisaari Quotes

The price of greatness is responsibility.

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

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

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

With great power goes great responsibility.

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

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Love can do much, but duty more.

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

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

If I'm going to represent God I have to do it the best I can.

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

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

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

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

Duty cannot exist without faith.

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids... my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

I have done what I felt to be my duty.