Quotes about Duty

To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.

Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

Women's beauty doesn't belong to the women herself. She's the part of treasure, which she brings into the world. It's her duty to share it.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.