Quotes on Duty

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable.

I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family.

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.

I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those-who-have.