Quotes about Duty

My dear sister, it is my belief that it is actually one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love. The more ugly, old, mean, ill, poor I get, the more I want to take my revenge by producing a brilliant colour, well arranged, resplendent.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

The world runs by ungrace. Everything depends on what I do.

We exercise faith by responding to the task that lies before us.

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

Surely the spiritual leader must be sincere in promise, faithful in discharge of duty, upright in finances, loyal in service, and honest in speech.

Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.

A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.

Everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. - as spoken by Lou Holtz, former Notre Dame Coach