Quotes about Duty
The Temple of Righteousness is built and its four walls are the four Principles— Purity, Wisdom, Compassion, Love. Peace is its roof; its floor Steadfastness, its entrance-door is Selfless Duty, its atmosphere is Inspiration, and its music is the Joy of the perfect.
— James Allen
Life is more than motion, it is Music; more than rest, it is Peace; more than work, it is Duty; more than labour, it is Love; more than enjoyment, it is Blessedness; more than acquiring money and position and reputation, it is Knowledge, Purpose, strong and high Resolve.
— James Allen
Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.
— JM Coetzee
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
— George Bernard Shaw
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
— Edmund Burke
For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.
— Martin Niemoller
In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.
— Confucius
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
— Alexander Hamilton
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
— Aristotle
Man cannot choose his duties.
— George Eliot