Quotes about Duty
Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
- Mark Twain
If he was a wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- Mark Twain
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
- Mark Twain
He would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- Mark Twain
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ik raakte ervan overtuigd dat niet meewerken aan een slechte zaak net zo goed een morele verplichting inhoudt als meewerken aan iets goeds.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The time is always right to do what's right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never must the church tire of reminding men that they have a moral responsibility to be intelligent.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never, never be afraid to do what is right. Society's punishments are small compare to the wounds we inflict on our souls when we look away
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The sky may darken, and the clouds may gather, and again the day may come when Britain may have sore need of her children, on whatever shore of the sea they be found. Shall they not muster at her call?
- Arthur Conan Doyle