Quotes about Duty
So nigh is grandeur to our dust,So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, Thou must,The youth replies, I can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day carries with it a responsibility.
- Joseph Wirthlin
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Christendom and the theological world were always ill-advised in thinking it their duty for some reason or other, either of enthusiasm or of theological conception, to pitch their tents in opposition to reason.
- Karl Barth
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
- Joseph Addison
A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.
- Mark Twain
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
- Mark Twain
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.
- Thomas Monson
Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
- Vernon Howard
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
- Edmund Burke