Quotes About Duty

There was so much to do. No time for sleeping. But he was so, so tired.…

It's what you would've wanted us to do.

All of it had seemed right. Doing these things for the greater good.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

You don't ask of Justice; it asks of you." -Danny Rollings

If not me, who?" "Who? You're Condor, not an owl.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

It was the duty of any man to face his enemies without hesitation. This was a truth that Odd had been taught from the time he was old enough to learn. And he would never do anything less. But facing one's wife was a different matter. That was something he was very hesitant to do. Nor was he afraid to admit as much, and he doubted that any man would be.

He lives like a fugitive to avoid becoming a hired killer in Uncle Sams Army.

The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security —

If there be a people on earth whose more especial duty it is to be at all times prepared to defend the rights with which they are blessed, and to surpass all others in sustaining the necessary burthens, and in submitting to sacrifices to make such preparations, it is undoubtedly the people of these states.

We cannot do whatever we please and remain lawyers or yogis-and yet we could not be either unless we pleased.

Do we fulfill our obligations by being practical all the time?

The fact that there is so much immoral behavior is not evidence of the weakness of the moral senses. The problem of wrong action arises because of the conflict among the several moral senses that exist, because of the struggle between morality and self-interest, and because of the corrosive effect of those forces that blunt the moral senses. We must often choose between duty and sympathy or between fairness and loyalty.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work And tools to work withal, for those who will....

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...

First, my fear; then, my curtsy; last my speech. My fear is your displeasure; my curtsy, my duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons.

for Hobie, who sorrowed over these elegant old remnants as if they were underfed children or mistreated cats, it was a point of duty to rescue what he could and then with his gifts as carpenter and joiner to recombine them into beautiful young Frankensteins that were in some cases plainly fanciful but in others such faithful models of the period that they were all but indistinguishable from the real thing. p452