Quotes about Duty

It was a very lonely spirit that looked out from underneath those shaggy brows and comprehended men without fully communing with them, as if in spite of all its genial efforts at comradeship, it dwelt apart, saw its visions of duty where no man looked on.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Suffering is given to the living, not to the dead," he said looking right through me. "It is man's duty to make it cease, not to increase it. One hour of suffering less is already a victory over fate.

There is "response" in responsibility.

The person to whom I am carrying a plate of food is someone whom it is an honor to serve. For he has been invited to eat and drink at the table of a King.

There is an active practice of holiness as we carry out, for the glory of God, the ordinary duties of each day, faithfully fulfilling the responsibilities given us. The passive practice consists in living acceptance of the unexpected, be it welcome or unwelcome, remembering that we have a wise and sovereign Lord who works in mysterious ways and is never taken by surprise.

If a duty is clear, the dangers surrounding it are irrelevant.

Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King—Else, wherefore born?