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Quotes About Duty

Because the work that doctors do has moral urgency, doctors have a highly refined, professionally reinforced sense of right and wrong.
~ John D. Lantos
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
~ John D. Rockefeller
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
~ John D. Rockefeller
It is when love takes on responsibilities that it most frequently wanders from the path.
~ JOHN DANIEL BARRY
God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God…. I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.
~ John Davison Rockefeller
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
~ John Doolittle
Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither.
~ Edward Bouverie Pusey
A military life has ever comported with my inclination.
~ George Stoneman
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
~ Joseph Joubert
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.
~ Newell Dwight Hillis
Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.
~ Peter King
If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
~ Emily Bronte
I wouldnt want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldnt for the life of me do the job in real life.
~ Jim Carter
The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and obligations to God and to one another.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?
~ Sean Hannity
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
~ Victor Hugo
It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?
~ Regina Brett
There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
~ Jim Butcher, Death Masks
You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.
~ Alice Foote MacDougall
So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.
~ James M. Paramore