Quotes about Duty

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

The young soldier was part of the "Baby Bottle Conscription," the boys called up when there were no more men, young or old, to fight the war.

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.