Quotes About Duty

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it's just the way things are supposed to be.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.