Quotes About Duty

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.

Duty is ours and events are God's.

I feel like God gave me an amazing ability, and it's my duty to show people what I'm made of.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?

I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.

Give voluntarily. When we catch a vision of God's grace, we will give beyond our duty.

Because it's our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn't I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

My parents are private investigators for God's sake.

The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy to become the home of God himself.

No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.