Quotes about Duty

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Adam noticed Gyp's mental conflict, and though his anger had made him less tender than usual to his mother, it did not prevent him from caring as much as usual for his dog. We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to the women that love us. Is it because the brutes are dumb? "Go, Gyp; go, lad!" Adam said, in a tone of encouraging command; and Gyp, apparently satisfied that duty and pleasure were one, followed Lisbeth into the house-place.

These things have not changed. The sunlight and shadows bring their old beauty and waken the old heart-strains at morning, noon, and eventide; the little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty; and men still yearn for the reign of peace and righteousness

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.