Quotes on Duty

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization... No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.

The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!

Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.

Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

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.

You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having. . . .