Quotes About Duty

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And what I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do.

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

Doing one's duty, however small, in an unattached manner gives rise to the awakening of self-awareness.

How can the sun and the moon praise God as the prophet exhorts them to do? By perfectly carrying out the role God has given them. Thus they render Him great praise. Behold, therefore, a wonderful means by which you can praise God all day: do your duty and whatever else you are given to do well.

Das Leben zwingt den Menschen zu allerlei freiwilligen Handlungen.

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

A veces, al evocar su vida, se sentía como si sólo hubiera participado activamente en una pequeña parte de ella, y hubiera vivido el resto sumida en el cansancio o empujada por el vacío sentido del deber

el derecho impone también deberes y que el amor más puro acaba por fatigarse si no se siente correspondido.

Porque el que no actúa también hace algo que lo convierte en culpable en la Tierra...

como advertencia para otras generaciones, redacta en esos días de soledad su última obra, al mismo tiempo la más grande, De officiis, la enseñanza de las obligaciones que el hombre independiente, el hombre moral, ha de cumplir frente a sí mismo y frente al Estado.

Tüm dünya yerle bir olurken, insan?n kendisi için çal??mas? bir suç.

Tüm dünya yerle bir olurken, insan?n kendisi için çal??mas? bir suç. - Sayfa 12

was profoundly convinced that were I suddenly to disappear, to fall from my horse, let us say, and break my neck, my fellow-officers would no doubt remark 'Pity about him,' or 'Poor Hofmiller!' but in a month's time no one would really miss me. Another man would be put in my place, would be given my mount, and that others would perform my duties just as well or just as badly as I myself.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

The foundation of a man's duty as a man is in truth. Beyond this there is nothing to be said.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.