Quotes About Duty

Who knows what light housework means? One nun's light could be another nun's penal servitude.

After years of feeling like the dutiful daughter, now I just felt like a complete shit.

Caleb knew he was running away. Shirking his responsibilities, worrying his father sick, more than likely, and letting a lot of people down. He knew that. And he knew it couldn't go on.

?Tis not for gain, for fame, from fear That righteous men injustice shun, And virtuous men hold virtue dear: An inward voice they seem to hear, Which tells them duty must be done.

Do naught to others which, if done to thee, would cause thee pain: this is the sum of duty.*

Almost anything you do is insignificant, But it is very important that you do it.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty, when the state becomes lawless or corrupt

President means Chief Servant.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

RAMNIK. Nobody is asking you to pray all day. ARUNA. Who do you think is protecting this house? RAMNIK. Who do you think is creating all this trouble? (Exits.)

There are lots of good cops around. Dumb guys who are good cops. Inflexible, limited, tough, self-satisfied types who are all good cops. It would be better if there were a few more good guys who were cops." His

Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.

Nicht die Welt aus den Angeln zu heben, sondern am gegebenen Ort das sachlich – im Blick auf die Wirklichkeit – Notwendige zu tun und dieses wirklich zu tun, kann die Aufgabe sein.

Let a man accept with confidence valuable knowledge even from a person of low degree, good instruction regarding duty even from a humble man, and a jewel of a wife even from an ignoble family.

My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.

when one performs her duty, never excusing herself, no one [15]knows it; on the contrary, imperfections appear immediately.

defence' might simply mean the duty of manning the walls in the event of an attack.

Ealdred of Bamburgh, had dutifully attended several assemblies down to his death in 933.

few may have served out of obligation, for land they had already been given,

Man's duty is to persuade and forgive, not to judge and punish. Kindness breeds kindness, and it is pity that wins amendment.

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.

an admitted insensibility or immorality simplifies life as much as does easy virtue; it converts reproachable actions, for which one no longer need seek any excuse, into a duty imposed by sincerity.

If fruitful love, meant to perpetuate the race, noble as a familial, social, human duty, is superior to purely sensual love, then there is no hierarchy of sterile loves, and such a love is no less moral - or, rather, it is no more immoral for a woman to find pleasure with another woman than with a person of the opposite sex.