Quotes About Duty

O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache.

It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.

Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is to avoid complicating matters.

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative

It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.

D'Artagnan is right," said Athos. "Behold our three leaves of absence, which come from M. de Treville; and here are three hundred pistoles, which come from I know not where. Let us go and be killed where we are told to go. Is life worth so many questions? D'Artagnan, I am ready to follow you.

Perhaps what I am about to say may seem strange to you, who are socialists, and vaunt humanity and your duty to your neighbor, but I never seek to protect a society which does not protect me, and which I will even say, generally occupies itself about me only to injure me; and thus by giving them a low place in my esteem, and preserving a neutrality towards them, it is society and my neighbor who are indebted to me." "Bravo

If there is a mistake, Monsieur Morrel,' the commissioner replied, 'you may be sure that it will soon be put right. In the meanwhile, I have a warrant here; and though I do it with regret, I must fulfil my duty.

M. Morrel realized that there was no sense in trying to argue in the circumstances: a commissioner wearing his sash is no longer a man but a statue of the law, cold, deaf and dumb.

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