Duty Quotes

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Thomas Drummond

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Albert Einstein

Theirs not to make reply Theirs not to reason why Theirs but to do and die.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.

Anonymous

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

Thomas à Kempis

So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Ulysses S. Grant

Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

England expects every man to do his duty.

Lord Horatio Nelson

Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

Ashim Shanker

Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?

Hilary Mantel

Duty eats free will for breakfast.

Daryl Gregory

And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are esteemed, being often forced, in order to maintain the state, to act contrary to faith, friendship, humanity, and religion. “ The Prince, XVIII, 5

Niccolò Machiavelli

There is but one path of safety to the Latter-day Saints, and that is the path of duty. It is not testimony, it is not marvelous manifestations, it is not knowing that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true, . . . it is not actually knowing that the Savior is the Redeemer, and that Joseph Smith was His prophet, that will save you and me, but it is the keeping of the commandments of God, the living the life of a Latter-day Saint. [Heber J. Grant, Improvement Era, November 1936, p. 659] Quoted in “Waiting Upon the Lord” By Henry B. Eyring, BYU Speeches, 30 Sept 1990

Heber J. Grant

Our heroes are over there where the white crosses are. We're survivors over here. None of us are heroes. I don't think you'll talk to a man who say we are. You figure a hero is someone who does above and beyond the call of duty, and when you give your life that's as above and beyond as you can get- Earl McClung.

Marcus Brotherton

A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas." -Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional)

Ted Bell

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

Helen Keller

Eventually you will find something to put that energy into and you will be unstoppable. Even now with something you take no joy in, you do your task dutifuly, because it's all you can do. There's something beautiful in that, Collin.

Kiera Cass

The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.

Comte de Lautréamont

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

John Stuart Mill

We refuse to put guards on duty, we would rather pray for God’s protection.

Sunday Adelaja

giving is a duty not a choice. Giving has no boundaries but it may be done under a noble discretion

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases

Hjalmar Söderberg

…love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow…

Lenore Kandel

When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready.

C.S. Lewis

Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.

Jeff Shaara

The only thing that feels right is as wrong as it can get

Maggie Hall

I understand the loss of a comrade is something to mourn, but our responsibilities do not end because one has lost the fight. We as defenders of this nation have an obligation to those who've sworn allegiance to us. And I intend to uphold my oath to the people of this land, no matter the cost.

Charles Lee

My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord.

William Shakespeare

The way of painful duty is the way of fullest comfort. Christ carrieth all our comforts in his hand : if we are out of that way where Christ is to be met, we are out of the way where comfort is to be had (312).

Richard Baxter

As a young man, he had instinctively husbanded the freshness of his powers. At the time, it was too soon to see that this freshness was giving birth to vivacity and gaiety, and shape to the courage needed to forge a soul that does not pale, no matter what life brings, regards life not as a heavy burden, a cross, but merely as a duty, and does battle with it with dignity.He had devoted much mental care to his heart and its wise laws. Observing the reflection of beauty on the imagination, both consciously and unconsciously, then the transition from impression to emotion, its symptoms, play, and outcome and looking around himself, advancing into life, he derived for himself the conviction that love moves the world like Archimede's lever, that it holds as much universal and irrefutable truth and good as misunderstanding and misuse do hypocrisy and ugliness.p. 494

Ivan Goncharov

From the neglect of a real duty, she became the slave of a false one.

George MacDonald

It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?

Zadie Smith

No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.

Claire Delacroix

Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.

Carsten Jensen

Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.

Chris Galford

She very much feared that if she stayed with Maximus, this awful taint – this terribly wrong act – would, day by day, year by year, wear at her until she was no more than a ghost of her former self. She saw need when she looked into his eyes, but was there any love as well? Had she discarded Penelope’s friendship for a man who didn’t, in the end, truly care fo

Elizabeth Hoyt

Maybe in death you’ll understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against all that you swear to protect.

Charles Lee

The only chains you should wear in life are the chains of commitment.

Shannon L. Alder

I did not come into this Army to serve one man, to serve a friend.

Jeff Shaara

Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.

George R.R. Martin

In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder duty left undone?In her contempt and dread of yielding to mere amorous weakness had she stifled and denied the cry of pity, the cry of conscience?To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite. To forgive wrongs darker than death or night. To defy power which seems omnipotent. To love and live to hope till hope creates from it's own wreck the thing it contemplates. Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent.This had been the higher, diviner way which she had missed, this obligation from the passion of the past which she had left unfulfilled, unaccepted.Now the misgiving arose in her whether she had mistaken arrogance for duty; whether, cleaving so closely to honor she had forgotten the obligation of mercy.

Ouida

It's his duty. A good healer can't pick and choose. If he can help, then he must.

Helene Wecker

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

Richard Courant

I tried to establish order over the chaos of my imagination, but this essence, the same that presented itself to me still hazily when I was a child, has always struck me as the very heart of truth. It is our duty to set ourselves an end beyond our individual concerns, beyond our convenient, agreeable habits, higher than our own selves, and disdaining laughter, hunger, even death, to toil night and day to attain that end. No, not to attain it. The self-respecting soul, as soon as he reaches his goal, places it still further away. Not to attain it, but never to halt in the ascent. Only thus does life acquire nobility and oneness.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Mankind has a divine duty, to be stewardship of the natural resources.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I have been blessed with luck, talent and opportunities, now it is my duty to add the hardworking element.

M.F. Moonzajer

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

Jeanette Winterson

Your fear is, that if you marry Adèle, you will love her. If you have children, you will love them more than anything else in the world, more than patriotism, more than democracy. If your children grow up, and prove traitors to the people, will you be able to demand their deaths, as the Romans did? Perhaps you will, but perhaps you will not be able to do it. You’re afraid that if you love people you may be deflected from your duty, but it’s because of another kind of love, isn’t it, that the duty is laid upon you?

Hilary Mantel

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

Aristotle

In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.

Edward Forbes

You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.

Bhagavad Gita

But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.

Idries Shah

[Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of reward, to strive for unpopular causes.[Chapman Cohen on the death of noted freethinker and peace advocate Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner]

Chapman Cohen

This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the heart.

Victor Hugo

How does a person perform nobly in Hell?" I asked her."You plant flowers," she hissed. "You feed the birds, while they're burning...

Amberle L. Husbands

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self. Every attempt to live as if he were alone is a denial of the fact that he is actually responsible. He cannot escape the responsibility, which is his because he is a father. This reality refutes the fictitious notion that the isolated individual is the agent of all ethical behavior. It is not the isolated individual but the responsible person who is the proper agent to be considered in ethical reflection.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The needs are too great, and there are too few of us. We have a duty, a responsibility to help others. It’s not all about fun. It’s not always easy.

Leland Dirks

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