Quotes About Duty

There is no virtue like necessity.

Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key,With bated breath, and whispering humbleness,Say this.

For new-made honor doth forget men's names.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:Follow your spirit; and, upon this chargeCry "God for Harry! England and Saint George!"

Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.

Why should I play the Roman fool; and dieOn mine own sword?

'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

Had I but serv'd my God with half the zealI serv'd my king, he would not in mine ageHave left me naked to mine enemies.

I do perceive here a divided duty.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Such duty as the subject owes the prince,Even such a woman oweth to her husband.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth,Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

Nothing in his lifeBecame him like the leaving it; he diedAs one that had been studied in his deathTo throw away the dearest thing he ow'd,As 'twere a careless trifle.

God defend the right!

It did me yeoman's service.

For honor travels in a strait so narrowWhere one but goes abreast.

You are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

First Guard:… Charmian, is this well done?Charmian: It is well done, and fitting for a princessDescended of so many royal kings.

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.

O ye who lead,Take heed!Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite.

We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which God particularly requires. Love, Zeal, Gratitude, Joy, Hope, Trust, are each of them specified; and are not allowed to us as weaknesses, but enjoined on us as our bounden duty, and commended to us as our acceptable worship.

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.