Duty Quotes - Page 8

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

Consult duty not events.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

If you believe in peace it is possible. If it is possible it is a duty.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

England expects every man to do his duty

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear.