Quotes about Duty
Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.
- John Maxwell
Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People who do their duty are always finally rewarded.
- Emily Bronte
For your part, do not adopt any air of superiority. Mind your own business, keep busy with the work you are best suited for, and play well the part the Author has given you.
- Epictetus
you should not wait for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do your duty; but do good of your own accord.
- Epictetus
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
- Andrew Carnegie
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
- Andrew Jackson
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
- Andrew Jackson
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
- Andrew Jackson
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Lao Tzu
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
- St. Augustine
Everything in my life I owe to God, my family, the Naval Academy, and the Marine Corps.
- Todd Young