Quotes About Duty

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same.

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.

I certainly take work as a joyous responsibility.

Some people come to work and that's exactly what it is - work.

I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

Someone has to do everything that is done.

Do you work for the government, any government?" "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.

Duty is God;Work is worship.

My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

I'd rather work than not.

We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work.

We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock

Let us do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.

I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.

At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.