Quotes About Duty

We do not what we ought;What we ought not, we do;And lean upon the thoughtThat chance will bring us through.

The honour of being admitted into communion with God, and of being employed for him, does not exempt us from the duties of our relations and callings in this world.

Note, Religion teaches good manners, and obliges us to give honour to those to whom honour is due.

God's servants must think nothing below them but sin.

And let our make and place, as men, remind us of our duty as Christians, which is always to keep heaven in our eye and the earth under our feet.

We may be in the way of our duty, and yet may meet with troubles, which Providence brings us into for the trial of our faith, and that God may be glorified in our relief.

As soon as ever God by his Spirit convinces our consciences of any sin or duty we must immediately set in with the conviction, and prosecute it, as those that are not ashamed to own our former mistake.

The cause of sin; it is because his fear is not in us. It is for want of a good principle in us, particularly for want of the fear of God; this is at the bottom of our apostasy from him; men forsake their duty to God because they stand in no awe of him nor have any dread of his displeasure

Note, Our sorrow upon any account is sinful and inordinate when it diverts us from our duty to God and embitters our comfort in him

Those that sincerely design and endeavour to do their duty may in faith beg of God direction and strength for the doing of it.

When God corrects us or ours for sin, it is our duty to be silent under the correction

Communion with God and serviceableness to his church are things that, above any other, put true honour upon men.

Some know, but to know. Some know, to be known. Some know, to practise what they know. Now, to know, but to know—that is curiosity. To know, to be known—that is vain glory. But to know, to practise what we know—that is gospel duty.

When the President asks you to do something, you'd be surprised how keen you are to oblige," Syme said.

Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

We should tell ourselves, once and for all, that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. Herein is no egoism, or pride. To become effectually generous and sincerely humble there must be within us a confident, tranquil, and clear comprehension of all that we owe to ourselves.

And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and be deaf to all else, it were doubtless our solitary duty to relieve the suffering about us to the greatest extent in our power.

Contemporary politics is truly an arena in which questions are badly put, or put in such a way that one cannot side with either of the two present contestants. We are called to choose between them. Our duty is to do no such thing.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. - Potter Stewart

Wainwright, who did his duty more impressively than MacArthur

Soldiers may accept a need to be the first to die in a war, but there is often an unseemly scramble to avoid becoming the last.

It is the duty and privilege of historians to deploy relativism in a fashion that cannot be expected of contemporary participants.

Looking back later, we could see that the military code was unreasonable. But at that time, we regarded dying for our country as our duty. If men had been allowed to surrender honourably, everybody would have been doing it.