Quotes About Duty

He had not been physically fit for some time before his death, but we could accept that for, as I said to a senior officer who queried the point, 'He does not have to look like an officer -- only like a staff officer.

We work in the dark to serve the light, we are assassins!

2 young ladies to sing us the new liberty song readiness to be shot / versus / taxes

We will love her, protect her, all of us--Bisaya, Tagalog, Ilokano, so many islands, so many tribes--because if we act as one, we will be strong and so will she be. Alone you will fall prey to every marauder that passes by. I am not asking that you love Filipinas. I am asking that you do what is right, what is duty..." -The Cripple

Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one, and that duty is to value justice above everything--to do what is right not because someone ordains it, but because the heart which is the seat of truth decrees it so.

Footnoting references, signalling quotations, and so on were no part of a 13th-century scholar's duty. He could recycle his own and his predecessor's work without a qualm. He knew nothing of copyright and plagiarism, which are 17th-century inventions.

Can there be any study of humanity, in 1946, without historians who are ambitious, conscious of their duties and of their immense powers?

Su misión no era pensar ni sentir, sino cumplir órdenes.

ley es para tranquilizarles la conciencia a los del Congreso, que creen que están trabajando;

Nadie tiene la obligación de hacer el bien, todos tenemos la obligación de no hacer el mal.

Good men have only to do nothing, for evil to conquer" (137).

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

Youth is an obligation; that is to say, you have an absolute duty to be happy and to preserve a good memory of yourself for one who loves you.

François Goyot de Pitavals

1. Responsabilidad

We are only stewards of the world's resources. They are not ours; they are God's. When we find our security in Him, we can then give generously from what He has entrusted to us. This is our Christian duty.

If God gives you responsibility for aging parents, seek what is best for them, not what is most convenient for you. And keep contact with them!

When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back.

In the last essay he wrote before he died, great Christian apologist C. S. Lewis said, "We have no right to happiness; only an obligation to do our duty." Of course it is in our duty that happiness comes. Try it.

A Christian's citizenship may be in heaven, but he has obligations as a citizen of earth. Both living with Christ and going to be with Him in death are greatly to be desired.

A Christian has tremendous responsibilities to his own family. He or she has a responsibility of loving each member of the family.

The Bible teaches that we have a Christian duty to help our neighbors in their time of need. We are called by God to bring the water of life for both soul and body. God created them both, and His purpose is to redeem them both.

As long as we are on this earth, we possess dual citizenship. On one hand we owe allegiance to our nation and are called to be good citizens. But we are also citizens of the kingdom of God. Our supreme loyalty is to Him.

In the last essay he wrote before he died, the great Christian writer C. S. Lewis said, "We have no right to happiness; only an obligation to do our duty." Sometimes our God-given duty will include suffering. When it does, ask God to teach you through it. Remember the psalmist's words I quoted above: "Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O LORD.