Goran Visnjic Quotes

I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else's country, and you were aware of your behaviour. And my mum worked for the NHS, so you were aware of your responsibility to your country.

I don't feel like I have to be nationalistic French because I'm afraid of losing whatever. No, no, no, no. And also I don't think we are the best.

My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.

We will never bring disgrace to this, our country, by any act of cowardice. We will fight for the ideals of this, our country. We will revere and obey the laws. We will strive to quicken our sense of civic duty. Thus, in all these ways, we will transmit this country greater, better, stronger, prouder and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.

Like many foreign students when they go abroad, I was instantly thrust into a position of having to explain and defend my country. That is a very common predicament.

Our definition of patriotism is often too narrow. Shall the lover of his country measure his loyalty only by his service as a soldier? No! Patriotism calls for the faithful and conscientious performance of all of the duties of citizenship, in small matters as well as great, at home as well as upon the tented field

The pride I feel in representing my people, no matter where I am, is never going to diminish. I could be in Hong Kong, Singapore, Egypt or even Las Vegas, I'll always be representing my people.

Being a global ambassador is as much a responsibility as it is an honour.

I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.

The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

I commit myself to serve my country.

People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

I wish to be no less than national in all the positions I may take.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

China is a company of contradictions. Nothing is what it appears to be. We have to be extremely respectful when we go overseas.

Where is the man who owes nothing to the land in which he lives?

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

I believe all of us want to do good for our country.

We all owe America. It's not the other way around.

I feel like I have this unique opportunity to represent both Korea and the U.S.

I always say I represent my family when I'm in my country, but I represent my big family, which is Georgia, when I'm outside of my country.

I am so proud to be Ukrainian, and I'm also so proud to be an American.

There is nothing better to do than to represent your country.