Quotes About Duty

The purpose of our life is to serve not to observe.

It is your life, accept the responsibility.

In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

With great power comes great responsibilty.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

It isn't enough to just be on the journey; we must be awake to our duty and continue with faith as we draw upon the comforting, strengthening, enabling, and healing power of the Atonement.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

The Caine Mutiny,

When the destinies of the world are at stake, there comes a point at which private esteem and admiration must give way to the sense of public duty.

Indeed, when we awaken in the morning, rather than lazily lying in bed, we should tell ourselves that we must get up to do the proper work of man, the work we were created to perform.6

Marcus advises us to perform with resoluteness the duties we humans were created to perform. Nothing else, he says, should distract us. Indeed, when we awaken in the morning, rather than lazily lying in bed, we should tell ourselves that we must get up to do the proper work of man, the work we were created to perform.

Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,A lonely impulse of delightDrove to this tumult in the clouds.

Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.