Quotes about Duty
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
— John Adams
In regard to the present question, while it explains what our duty is it teaches that the power of obeying it is derived from the goodness of God, and it accordingly urges us to pray that this power may be given us.
— John Calvin
For it is a moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to others.
— John Calvin
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
— Henry David Thoreau
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
— George Washington
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
— Winston Churchill
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
— George Bernard Shaw
Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Happiness is a moral obligation.
— Dennis Prager
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
— Samuel Johnson
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
— Benjamin Disraeli