Quotes About Duty

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though I never received one cent for it.

Nature! I think it my duty to serve its beauty.

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men

Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health.

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.