Quotes About Duty

Part of moving Beyond Order is knowing when you have such a reason. Part of moving Beyond Order is understanding that your conscience has a primary claim on your action, which supersedes your conventional social duty.

What might serve as a more sophisticated alternative to happiness? Imagine it is living in accordance with the sense of responsibility, because that sets things right in the future.

Standing up means voluntarily accepting the burden of Being.

NOTICE THAT OPPORTUNITY LURKS WHERE RESPONSIBILITY HAS BEEN ABDICATED

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.

I think nowadays, while literary men seem to have neglected their epic duties, the epic has been saved for us, strangely enough, by the Westerns.

Ya] estoy todos los días en peligro de dar mi vida por mi país y por mi deber -puesto que lo entiendo y tengo ánimos con que realizarlo- de impedir a tiempo con la independencia de Cuba que se extiendan por las Antillas los Estados Unidos y caigan con esa fuerza más sobre nuestras tierras de América.

La naturaleza es hermosa, que la vida es un deber, que la muerte no es fea, que nadie debe estar triste ni acobardarse mientras haya libros en las librerías, y luz en el cielo, y amigos, y madres.

i El deber de un hombre es estar allí, donde es mas útil!

Libre no es para Hegel quien hace lo que quiere, sino quien hace lo que debe hacer para realizar su esencia. La libertad de la historia no es, por tanto, la mera contingencia, el azar, o el acaso; la libertad de la historia es cumplimiento inexorable del fin, sumisión a sí mismo.

Temerosos de pensar, como si fincasen en ello el pecado mayor de los siete capitales, pierden la aptitud para todo juicio; por eso cuando un mediocre es juez, aunque comprenda que su deber 60 es hacer justicia, se somete a la rutina y cumple el triste oficio de no hacerla nunca y embrollarla con frecuencia.

Det er riktig at bestefaren din måtte forlate Spania, hadde greven av Barcelona sagt. - Men han forble konge til han døde. I en tone som gjorde inntrykk på gutten hadde han lagt til: - For, ser du, Juanito, en konge bør aldri abdisere. Det har han ingen rett til.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

The post of honour is a private station.

It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for the good of society, and not pass away their time in fruitless searches, which tend rather to the ostentation of knowledge than the service of life.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.

What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country

Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it.

The unsound convert is willingly ignorant, loves not to come to the light. He is willing to keep such or such a sin, and therefore is loathed to know it to be a sin, and will not let in the light at that window. Now, the gracious heart is willing to know the whole latitude and compass of his Maker's law. He receives with all acceptation the Word which convinceth him of any duty that he knew not, or minded not before, or which discovereth any sin that lay hid before.

Everybody makes himself inconspicuous when the captain asks for volunteers for night patrol. But one man, the pure warrior, has already rubbed burnt cork on his face. He believes winning the war is his personal responsibility.

For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.