Quotes About Duty

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

To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.

For us military men, it is impossible to forget.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

I never killed a man I didn't have to.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.