Quotes About Duty

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.

The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot avoid. We must triumph!

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

My only role and responsibilities as a king in short is like dessup

But we can't allow personal matters to interfere with revolutionary duties. Especially for an important political assignment like the exhibition.

What was she thinking before she jumped? She must have forgotten about her duties to her country, and her family too. Did she think about her granddaughter rushing back from Shandong for the funeral? Did she remember her blind sister? I