Quotes about Duty

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. And I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself.