Quotes About Duty

The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.

There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.

The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessings

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

Ben told me that in Greek culture it has historically been considered both a duty and an honor to take care of strangers. You can see it with the villagers. The way they go out to rescue people in their boats or bring food to the exhausted ones on the beach. In ancient times, the gods used to test mortals by arriving on their doorsteps clothed in rags to see if they would be welcomed or turned away.

It is said of Pompey, that when he was to carry grain to Rome in time of dearth, he was in a great deal of danger by storms at sea, but, says he, 'We must go on; it is necessary that Rome should be relieved, but it is not necessary that we should live.

I vote Labour. To me, voting Labour is like wiping your bottom: I can't say I like doing it but you've got to - because you're in a worse mess if you don't.

My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

can be very ungreat. 'And before you do any digging you can change the babies' nappies,' smiled Mum. 'Thank you,' I scowled. 'I'm just your slave really, aren't I?' 'Yes,' they answered. I turned round to find the twins and of course they'd vanished, hadn't they? They're always

he desired so to deliver them from that error as if he saw not them, but himself, entangled in it; thus truly loving his neighbour as himself, and doing to others as he would have others do to him if he required their help—a duty to the statement of which our Lord added these words, " This is the law and the prophets. " [ Matthew 7: 12 ]

There is no cruelty in regard for God's honour.

To see the law by Christ fulfilled and hear his pardoning voice, changes a slave into a child and duty into choice.

Fellowship is not just a social privilege to enjoy; it is more basically a responsibility to assume.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens it's always, who's responsible for this?

I wonder which is the more useful to a nation, " he asked rhetorically, "a well-powdered nobleman who knows exactly at what minute the King gets up and goes to bed, and who gives himself grand airs while playing the part of a slave in some Minister's antechamber, or a business man who enriches his country, issues orders from his office to Surat or Cairo, and contributes to the well-being of the world.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

The things men did or felt they had to do.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orders, instructions, duties, commands— and finally the many-headed monster, morale, necessity, hard reality, responsibility, or whatever it was called— there was always a screen behind which to evade the simple law of humanity.