Quotes About Duty

A true writer has a moral duty to uplift humanity.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

To marry a girl just to make her a widow," said Gabriel Lightwood. "Many would say that was not a kindness.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country

In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good vs. evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good vs. doing nothing. -Deirdre Sullivan

I'm a Guild Boss, remember? I have no sense of humor.

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part.

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.

Iraq, and suggested the soldiers

But there was one thing he actually did believe in that bordered on the magical, or at least the beyond-pedestrian, and that was the duty a writer owed to a story.

We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.