Quotes About Duty

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

All those who run away to ashrams, thinking they are doing something great are just performing daily chores there - cooking, gardening etc. After all, the place has to be run.

The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility.

My commitment is to serve for the Glory of God and the good of man.

Being a father brings with it a lot of responsibilities, just like being a goalkeeper does.

God bless all who serve or have served our country.

I was born military. I made up my mind right away, 'Im gong to do this for the rest of my life.'

There is no good time to break the law.

You're getting to be a big boy; and while I'm gone, you'll be the man of the family. I want you to act like one. You take care of Mama and Little Arliss. You look after the work and don't wait around for your mama to point out what needs to be done. Think you can do that?

Lookit!" he said, pounding a nearby table. "My job is not to deal with this people thing! My job is to kill the enemy!

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But the genuine philosopher—as it seems to us, my friends?—lives 'unphilosophically' and 'unwisely,' above all imprudently, and feels the burden and the duty of a hundred attempts and temptations of life—he risks himself constantly, he plays the wicked game.

Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live!

Our duties - are the rights of others over us.

A nation goes to pieces when it confounds its duty with the general concept of duty. Nothing works a more complete and penetrating disaster than every impersonal duty, every sacrifice before the Moloch of abstraction.

when an exceptional person treats a mediocre one more delicately than he treats himself and his equals, this is not just courtesy of the heart—it is his duty

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.

Love begins when duty finishes. It is a giving of the cloak when the coat is taken. It is walking the extra mile.

We lose our souls not only by the evil we do but also by the good we leave undone.

The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission.