Quotes about Duty
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
— Mortimer Adler
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
— Confucius
Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
— Denzel Washington
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
— John Adams
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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