Quotes About Duty

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

I feel it my bounden duty to not only replace displaced bones, but also teach others, so that the physical and spiritual may enjoy health, happiness and the full fruition of our earthly lives.

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.

All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.

He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.

It is called as 'discharge' (karma) when one has to do it compulsorily and against his wishes.

I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

Love is a better master than duty.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.