Quotes about Duty
You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
- George Washington
We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.
- Samuel Johnson
If God had a wife, He would be in trouble too if He dodged His chores.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
To those whom much is given, much is expected.
- John F. Kennedy
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
- John Adams
This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
- Cicero
You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The existence of the moral sense is a signal that there is an ought, something other than, and transcendent over, what is. We will look again at this signal when we examine how.
- James Sire
God gave him a work to do. He commissioned him to be a watchman on the walls.
- David Jeremiah
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
- Edith Wharton
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.
- Edith Wharton