Quotes About Duty

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Work is a four-letter word.

The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.