Quotes about Duty

The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

But I myself do not think I cannot make mistakes - I am too conscious of my many errors to be able to say this or that is the right manner and this or that, the wrong one. That goes without saying. But I am not indifferent, I think it wrong to be so. I think it one's duty to try to do the right thing, even knowing that one cannot go through life without making mistakes, without regret or sorrow. Somewhere I read, Some good must come by clinging to the right.

My dear sister, it is my belief that it is actually one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love. The more ugly, old, mean, ill, poor I get, the more I want to take my revenge by producing a brilliant colour, well arranged, resplendent.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

The world runs by ungrace. Everything depends on what I do.

We exercise faith by responding to the task that lies before us.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

All my life, even as an actor, I felt like I was really trying to be dutiful, which sometimes got in my way of being creative and being an artist.

We all have the duty to do good.