Quotes about Duty

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.

The greatest food for the greatest number—that's my slogan. At a time of desperate public need, it's our duty to sacrifice our luxurious tastes and eat our way back to prosperity by adapting ourselves to the simple, wholesome foodstuff on which the peoples of the Orient have so nobly subsisted for centuries. There's a great deal that we could learn from the peoples of the Orient.

Duty compels us to care about people that we will never meet.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

For love of country, they accepted death.

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.