Quotes About Duty

The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Conscience, as I understand it, is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right, regardless of personal ends, and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

The forgotten man. He is the clean, quiet, virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word.

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

If I have been fortunate enough to have risen to a level in this business where people would actually listen to me, then I think I have a duty to convey all truths that I encounter.

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.

I was not only a billionaire but the richest man in Turkey. It's a great feeling, but your responsibilities increase.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

Having immigrated here when I was 3, I was grateful for the opportunities America provided and felt a duty to defend the ideals that make us the strongest nation in the world. I can't imagine turning away anyone who shares that vision and has the drive and ability to serve.