Quotes About Duty

It's about doing the right thing even if you don't want to do it. About taking responsibility for your actions...it's about letting go when you really, really want to hold on so bad.

Your duty is to society, and the dead have always been a part of society. How we treat the dead says much about us.

We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong.... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Arm yourself with resignation. We live in a world full of evil. In the later period of life, misfortunes seem to thicken round us and out duty and our peace both require that we should accustom ourselves to meet disaster with Christian fortitude

There are men who, under any circumstances, will have the courage to do their duty at every hazard.

The best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

He wished those at home who took such people for granted could see them now. They did not care about the cause or the reason, and none had come to this place of his own free will. They fought like lions, for each other, for the ship around them. It was their world. It was enough.

The old Jack's yardstick: if it moves, salute it! If it doesn't, paint it!

They didn't question the rights or wrongs of being here. Their lives were the ship, and one another. It was a pity many in high authority did not remember that.

If the first moment of the day fails to stir you, you are no longer fit to command.

Nothing is more common than that a man shall know perfectly well that some possibly trivial habit stands in the way of something that it is his interest or his duty to pursue; but the knowledge lies inoperative in the outermost part of him. It is so in regard to graver things. The majority of the slaves of any vice whatsoever know perfectly well that they ought to give it up, and yet nothing comes of the conviction.

What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.

Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

Act well your part; there all the honour lies.

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

It was his duty as a card-carrying Knight in Shining Armor to answer the call of a woman in distress. Okay, he didn't actually have a card, but still...

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act We do not know.

Go on and get some sleep, Tara. Nurse Kenny is officially on duty." Kenny slid into the seat by the bed as soon as Tara left. "And I'd better be getting paid for this." "You'll get paid exactly what you're worth." Sean hid a smile as he rolled over toward the wall. It would take Kenny a while to realize he'd just been insulted, but that was half the fun.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

All your decent work is slavery, didn't you say so yourself, that's what decent work is. Yep, and that's what I found out.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort and privilege that is not incompatible with the continued existence of the relations between them.