Quotes About Duty

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill, Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy, Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who love honor, men who cannot lie.

Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

We forget because we must And not because we will.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential - generosity, service, self-sacrifice, unselfishness and duty.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

The insolence of office.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

The most important office is that of private citizen.