Quotes About Duty

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation.

It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.

Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.

Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders' fields.