logo

Quotes About Duty

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.
~ Ernst Toller
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
~ Napoleon Hill
We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world would come to a standstill.
~ Paulo Coelho
Duty never stopped anyone from following their dreams.
~ Paulo Coelho
Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.
~ Peter James
Even when there is no law, there is conscience.
~ Publilius Syrus
There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only score when you leave home and return home.
~ Rhymefest
She sacrificed her life to make things right," Mitchell grumbled. "She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero
~ Rick Riordan
Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.
~ Robert Breault
Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.
~ Robert Palmer
We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.
~ S. Parkes Cadman
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
~ Sophie Swetchine
It is part of a sailor's life to die well.
~ Stephen Decatur
Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.
~ Swami Vivekananda
It's immoral to ask people to risk their life.
~ Tim Kaine
I can honestly say that being a United States senator has been the honor of my life.
~ John Ensign
I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.
~ John F. Kerry
Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.
~ Kevin Shelley
In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.
~ Lance B. Wickman
The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
~ Leon Kass