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Quotes About Duty

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
~ George Santayana
If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.
~ Richardson Wright
The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.
~ Arthur Symons
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.
~ Michael Caine
Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law.
~ Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.
~ Harper Lee
A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.
~ Harry S. Truman
Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
~ James G. Frazer
It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.
~ Seishiro Itagaki
Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.
~ Walt Disney
Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
~ William Faulkner
Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.
~ William Shakespeare
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
~ Charles Lamb
We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.
~ David McMurtrie Gregg
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.
~ Steve Buyer
Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.
~ Chris Cannon
I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Each man has some part to play.
~ Adelaide Anne Procter