Quotes About Duty

If God's suggesting that I am expected to do good and also obligated to manufacture a genuine desire for it, this boat's sunk, still sitting on the trailer in the driveway. A stack of things need to happen before I desire to be good…

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but to help the improvident, drinking class is clear generosity, so that the donor has a right to be warmed by a selfish pride and count on a most flattering obituary.

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty.

it is our sacred duty to make valuable the lives that these people are laying down.

Up, men, and to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from Old Virginia.

The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad.—Anything for the good of one's country—I'm a Roman for that.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

A mere verbal formula often distinguishes a truism from a paradox. "It is the duty of society to protect the weak;" but protection cannot be efficient without the power of control; therefore, "It is the duty of society to enslave the weak." And it is a duty which no organized and civilized society ever failed to perform. Parents, husbands, guardians, teachers, committees, etc., are but masters under another name, whose duty it is to protect the weak, and whose right it is to control them.

At the height of the British Empire, Lord Palmerston said, "It is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

Horthy was no more of an anti-Semite than good manners required, and this was not something he may have wanted himself, but his duty was to preserve an independent Hungary, and if putting Jews into labor battalions was what was needed, he was going to do what was needed. For

You would be William, then," she said. He nodded. "Are you here for yourself or for Casshorn?" "For Jack," he said. "I see." She didn't, but that seemed like the right thing to say.

Hugh got up. Would love to stay and play doctor, love, but duty calls. He headed for the door. Play doctor? Jackass. Harpy. Thank you for saving me in the woods, she said to his back. And for healing Alex. You're welcome. I'll see you downstairs in ten minutes. A moment later Rook slipped into her room and held out his writing pad. Hugh needed help? No, Elara said. He was terrifying.

It's not always about one's personal happiness. Sometimes it has to be about the obligation we have to others. A duty to pay back for the gift you were given.

Sometimes killing a man wasn't an act of anger or punishment. It was a public service.

You want to be the best innkeeper you can be. He wants to be the best soldier he can be." Wilmos