Quotes about Duty
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
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
— GK Chesterton
It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.
— Marcus Aurelius
To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.
— Brigham Young
Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
— James G. Frazer
The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.
— Walt Disney
Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
— William Faulkner
Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
— Elbert Hubbard