Quotes about Duty

Christians were free, but he also made it clear that their freedom made them duty-bound to behave well toward others. Christian truth was eleven parts paradox out of ten. This was its essentially mysterious and glorious nature.

Wilberforce could put her at ease. Some, he writes to her, "are thrown into public, some have their lot in private life…. It would merit no better name than desertion…if I were thus to fly from the post where Providence has placed me.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

Power has only one duty--to secure the social welfare of the people.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

In the Marine Corps, we're taught to put America above ourselves.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

Well, one must be a slave to something in this kind of a world,' he said.