Quotes About Duty

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

We are serving no one man, we are serving our country.

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'

A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

A tough fight against evil is the duty of good man.

No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad.