Quotes About Duty

The highest duty is to respect authority.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

Am I my brother's keeper?

To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.

Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary.

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities, or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations, or avoiding them.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.

Cheers for the sailors that fought on the wave for it, Cheers for the soldiers that always were brave for it, Tears for the men that went down to the grave for it, Here comes the Flag!

"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

A picket frozen on duty - A mother starved for her brood - Socrates drinking the hemlock, And Jesus on the rood; And millions who, humble and nameless, The straight, hard pathway trod - Some call it Consecration, And others call it God.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it.

Happy the man who knows his duties!