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Quotes About Duty

Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.
~ Unknown
To those who are given much, much is expected.
~ Maya Angelou
America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.
~ Claudia Pemberton
A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
~ William Bennett
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.
~ E. B. White
You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
~ Isaac Asimov, Foundation
the time is always right to do the right thing
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.
~ Oscar Wilde
Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Freedom... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!
~ Joseph P. Sekula
If we cannot be defending our borders in person, we be a person the forces are proud to protect.
~ Sandeep Sahajpal
That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself.
~ Mark Goldblatt
to avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You were ordered to obey to Allah, and you were create to perform good deeds.
~ Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me.
~ U.S. Marine Corps
Every man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility
~ Philip Roth
yEvery man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility
~ Philip Roth
the existence of the moral sense is a signal that there is an ought, something other than, and transcendent over, what is. We will look again at this signal when we examine how
~ James W Sire
Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
~ JAMES WADDEL ALEXANDER
My war is not as simple as yours was, Father. People seem to question their obligation to serve on other than their own terms. But enough of that. I fight because we have always fought. It doesn't matter who.
~ James Webb