Duty Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I only did my duty, and what I was told to do as well as I could.

— Simo Hayha

Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

— Brock Yates

I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.

— Gerald Walpin

I've worked since taking a newspaper route at age 9 and served as a prosecutor, a planning commissioner, a city councilman, and a congressman…

— Eric Swalwell

I worked at the State Department.

— Andy Kim

I did my duty as an American citizen and Army officer.

— Alexander Vindman

Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.

— Art Rooney

This is going to sound terrible, but once I moved to New York, I never did a civilian job. I was extraordinarily lucky.

— Jean Smart

I was head of the Cold Weather Warfare unit within the Special Boat Service. My job was to do extreme climbs, learn about new…

— Nirmal Purja

I worked at this place called Water World; it was a waterslide park. My brother and my dad framed my first paycheck from this…

— Summer Sanders

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

— Ty Pennington

I was a fireman. I lived in the fire sta­tion for about a year. The pay wasn't so good. It was kind of like…

— Tom Waits