Quotes About Duty

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

When a form of government is legitimately constituted," Rosa now wrote, "even though it may initially have been defective or even questionable in various ways Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is one's duty to support it, for public order or the common good requires it. Nor is it permitted to either individuals or to parties to plot to defeat it or supplant it or change it with unjust means."22

What those courageous actions during the war were he did not say.

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient, and to protect them from harm.

Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company's in trouble, and we have to help them. We're in reserve, so we have to go. And if we're shelled, we're shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

I did it, Mrs. Maycott, because I am a patriot, and if a man loves his country he must uphold the principles of that country even if doing so may make him uncomfortable in his own heart and odious to his neighbors.

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks of honour we had forgotten - duty and patriotism, clad in glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to heaven.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.

... since God commanded me to go, I must do it.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.