Unpleasant Duty Quotes

Cruel necessity

… a distasteful but vital necessity

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant.

You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business. They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies.

Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.

It’s a miserable piece of legislation, but its on the books so we’ve got to enforce it.

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.

I've never had a confrontation with any other member of Congress that I've enjoyed. It's just a part of the job that has to be done.

It's very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

Why do I always have to be the one to bring the bad news to the people?

When I was 17, my mum made me work in a cake factory for three days - I hated it.

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

I understand my role in this life, and my job is just to hurt people and get them out of there.

I pity the poor soul who will have to run this program.

A mission to Rangoon we had been accustomed to regard with feelings of horror. But it was now brought to a point. We must either venture there or be sent to Europe.

Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it.

I feel it is an intensely disagreeable and unfortunate task which we cannot in honor shirk.

I abhor this dirty work but when one is employed to sweep chimneys, one must black one’s fingers.

As tough an idea as it often is to stomach, the best way to thrive in a world that requires grunt work is to stop seeing it as grunt work.

Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!